Day 30: God Is Who Is

God, "HE WHO IS", revealed himself to Israel as the one "abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness". These two terms express summarily the riches of the divine name. In all his works God displays, not only his kindness, goodness, grace and steadfast love but also his trustworthiness, constancy, faithfulness and truth. "I give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness." He is the Truth, for "God is light and in him there is no darkness"; "God is love", as the apostle John teaches. CCC 214

In today's reading the Catechism covers two primary attributes that God has revealed to us about Himself: His love and He is truth. It is right for us, as His creations, to worship Him. What He promises always comes true. When He says that He will remain with us, He definitely will. In no one else can we say this, however much we may love and trust them. For we are fickle creatures at times and the best of us will still fail us at some point. 

As the Catechism Companion, Vol I puts it:

God is absolutely faithful. His promises always come true. We can abandon ourselves to the Lord because he is truth. He can neither deceive nor be deceived... God has revealed that not only is he truth, but he is love. God calls us to worship him because he loves us. (p. 64)

The most awesome display of God's love for us is expressed in perhaps the greatest verse in Scripture:

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Amen. Anything I could add to this would be as useless as St. Thomas Aquinas' "epistles of straw".