We wanted to be Omniscient and know everything, and invented the internet to search for anything we want to know.

We wanted to be Omnipresent, and made social networks to make our presence felt to everyone. Now we can also communicate with anyone at anytime, anywhere with the cellphone.

We wanted to be Omnipotent and crush any foe with a lightning bolt, and built the gun. We wanted to have the power to obliterate whole cities if they were sinful to us, and developed the Atomic Bomb. We wanted to be God and conjure light without even having to say “Let there be light” and invented light switches and light bulbs. We command animals who were of use to us to “go forth and multiply”. We even set out to create our own creatures with our advances in Genetics, Biology and Chemistry. We took steps to be closer to immortality with our discoveries in the field of medicine, and conquered most of the sicknesses known to man.

And with all this God looked on. He probably looked on with sadness, not because the humans toiled to be like Him, but because the humans were doing it the wrong way. For all their efforts trying to be artificially omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, they were choosing to forget one characteristic of Him – one that is perhaps the least tempting to imitate.

And so God came to us in our plain sight to show us how to be God.

Human reason falls short of understanding what God dared do. What kind of God, who is infinite, transcendent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, would go down to the level of His creatures, and allow Himself to be treated as He was? What kind of God, who is Creator, would allow Himself to be betrayed with a kiss, for a price of thirty silver coins? What kind of Creator would allow his creatures to spit on Him, to curse and jeer Him, to mock Him and crown Him with thorns, to flog Him at the pillar, to command Him, their Creator, to carry His cross, of which He will be nailed on and die? What kind of Creator would allow His creatures to treat Him so terribly? Yet more importantly, what kind of God would kneel down in front of His creatures, and insist to wash their feet? What kind of God would choose to dine with corrupt tax collectors and prostitutes? What kind of God would even be so foolhardy as to pray for those who condemned Him, as if they, little creatures, even had the right to condemn their God? If we were to test these acts on the scales of logic and reason, God would fail our test terribly, and we would deem Him stupid for doing such things. But God endowed us not only logic and reason, of which we are very proud of, and have made many things with. God also created us with the capability to be like Him in one way – what to Him is the most important way. For all this stupidity, it seems we can only blame it to one radical characteristic in Him that stirred Him to do such a thing – His omnibenevolence.

A priest once told in his homily: with the words of a man, a stranger, suddenly claiming that He was the Son of God, and teaching to love those who persecute you, turn the other cheek when slapped, how those who want to be first should be last, and “happy are those who are poor at heart”; Jesus could only be three things: a liar, a lunatic, or Lord.

We thought being God was having the ability to punish our enemies – He told us being God was loving our enemies. We thought being God was being powerful and revered – He told us being God was being humble and serving. We thought being God was having the ability to put to death those who were sinful to us –

He showed us being God was dying for those who were sinful to Him.

With our logic and reason we built great devices and conquered various sicknesses, but we fall short of understanding what He’s telling us. Good thing He gave us Love – and using that lens, suddenly everything, every thing He did, makes sense.

With our reasoning, the things God did were stupid, but if this is really God, then interesting questions come to mind: who are we with our limited logic to question Divine Logic? Who are we with our biased justice to question Divine Justice? Who are we with our well-kept mercy to question Divine Mercy?

And who was He who went down to our level and showed what Divine Logic, Divine Justice, and Divine Mercy meant (which is Love)? Who was He who we mocked, whipped, and killed on the cross? If we ask “who are we” to God, (with our logic, justice, and mercy) He should be answering that we, His judges, floggers, and murderers, are His most hated enemies.

Yet, try it in your prayer, and see what He answers…

…it will probably go something like “My beloved.”