YOUR GOD IS FULL OF COMPASSION
The course of the meditation: Find a corner where you can peacefully get rid of your remorse. Kneel or sit. Maybe it is best for you to collect yourself standing, with a slightly spread arms, aware that that you are standing before Jesus. You hear His call: „Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.“ Jesus’ arms are outstretched, in joyful anticipation of your coming into his friendly embrace. Go and fully surrender to that call and embrace. It is like swimming in the sea. Or as if the rain is pouring down heavily on you and washing away all your guilt and remorse. Bathe in the arms of Jesus. Look Jesus in the eyes. He does not judge you. He sympathizes with you. He does not ask about your sins. He is happy you are back. You cannot free yourself from sins and guilt on your own anyway. Only He can do that. He takes your guilt upon Himself. He loves you endlessly. Look him in the eyes for a long, long time and surrender to His friendship. From now on you will be new, pure and that is why you will forgive.
God shows His omnipotence mostly through forgiveness. He cannot but forgive. He would not be God otherwise. His mercy knows no bounds. There is no sin that cannot be forgiven. Unless man believes this and thinks that God is evil or limited as man. Only man can close himself to forgiveness. God never has limits, never conditions.
He opted for man. He gave everything to persuade man to believe that He loved him. Whenever we sincerily want forgiveness of sins, God forgives. As soon as we repent, as soon as we want to confess our sin or go to the sacrament of confession, we are always forgiven. That is why there is no room for remorse. It is a sign of our unbelief in God’s mercy. And that remorse eats away at man’s psyche more than anything else. Be humble and accept God’s forgiveness.
May this meditation free you from remorse.
He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).