My God Is Everything
Author
Milagros García Klibansky
Summary: Solomon built a sturdy temple to honor God, though he knew that not even the heavens could contain Him and that our relationship with Him should be just as firm. The answer to his question came when God drew near to us in Christ to reconcile us to Himself. So we live with gratitude: Christ dwells in us, fills our lives with His light, and leads us from spiritual death to abundant life. Christmas does not depend on a date or its decorations; it commemorates the birth that began the plan of salvation, which culminated in the resurrection. Let us prepare our hearts to receive Him: He alone offers us eternal life, and without Him we are nothing.
When Solomon decided to build a house for the Lord, he knew the magnitude of what he was about to do, because he knew whom he was doing it for; that is why, when it was finished, he cried out to God, saying: But will you, my God, really dwell on earth with humankind? If the heavens, however high they may be, cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
(Chronicles 6:18).
How far Solomon was from knowing that his question would be answered almost a millennium later, when that same God whom the heavens could not contain decided to draw near to us and invite us to be reconciled to Him.
Solomon was a wise man; he was fully aware that the one true God does not dwell in temples made by human hands (Acts 17:24).
But, passionate about showing God how precious He was in his life, he wanted the temple to be a solid and permanent building, just as our relationship with God should be.
We should live a life of gratitude for all that He did for us. Christ is everything in our lives; He left His kingdom, spurned His throne, and set aside His crown to come and reign in the temple of our bodies, and once there, everything else begins to fade away because His presence fills everything until it floods us with His light.
He not only divided history into two eras, but also divided our lives into a before and an after, and brought us from spiritual death into full and abundant life.
Christmas is not a date; even the actual date has not been established, because it is not important. What matters is that a birth took place, an event that began a Divine Plan of Salvation that culminated in the resurrection of the crucified God (John 3:16).
That is what our Christmas is about. The lights are not bad, nor are the little trees or the symbolic figures; what is bad is forgetting that none of this has any value if the manger of our hearts is not ready for the King of kings and Lord of lords to be born there.
It does not matter how long we live; what matters is the time we have lived with Christ. No other created thing can give us what He offers us: eternal life. He is the ineffable gift of God (2 Corinthians 9:15), because a Salvation so great cannot be described in words.
Whenever we want to show through our actions what we would be capable of doing for You, Lord, You have already done it; You are always one step ahead of us.
That is why we can only fall before Your presence and say to You, almost with a groan: “To whom shall we go, Lord? Without You we are nothing; You are everything!”