Adoring God is not useful, it does not give concrete dividends. Moreover, the one who adores in spirit and truth doesn’t care about any usefulness. Unless we begin to accept the “uselessness” of God, we will never know what adoration is.
In the Western world, the disease is called pragmatism, and this disease, eventually, leads to death. Under all of this, even among churchmen, underlies the concern of what use does it have. Often, our criteria are contaminated by the unconscious and pervasive concern of usefulness. And to give the green light to a project, we first filter it through this parameter which, without a doubt, is a camouflaged son of selfishness and shortsightedness.
There is no purpose to adoration, not even to become better. Adoration is essentially free: it consists of celebrating, just for sake of celebrating the I Am and Love since He deserves it, because He is like He is, so unbelievable, that it is worthwhile knowing Him, for the whole world to find out about Him, that everyone recognize Him and rejoice with this news, and that everyone be happy knowing that the Lord is God. If we do not start by accepting in our depths the “uselessness” of adoration, we will gradually fall down the steps of frustration.
When man accepts with ease and happiness that He is like that, when the son assumes and acknowledges the Loving Sameness of the Lord God, that man is an adorer, and feels a full sense of freedom, feels himself (how can one say?) light, agile. Dead or alive, bitter or happy, Love takes care of me, looks at me, He reaches out to me although I do not feel His carress on my skin. Whether I realize it or not, everything that I see before my eyes is a gift from the Father, and things are beautiful.
From the book Sensing Your Hidden Presence by Ignacio Larrañaga
