Timeless truth

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who depend upon horses;
Who put their trust in chariots because of their number, and in horsemen because of their combined power,
But look not to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the Lord!I - Is 31:1-3

Is this not too often our approach to everything? Even when we think to cry out to Him, we look to our own solutions, not trusting that if we act according to His loving guidance He will provide for our needs. Our fear drives us to avoid the help that He provides and to seek what seems a more likely means of our providence.

By his own powers man cannot see God, yet God will be seen by men  because He wills it . . . The Spirit prepares man to receive the Son of God, the Son leads him to the Father, and the Father, freeing him from change and decay, bestows the eternal life that comes to everyone from seeing God.

As those who see light are in the light sharing in brilliance, so those who see God are in God sharing his glory, and that glory gives them life. - St. Irenaeus, bishop, from a treatise against Heresies

Grace. Always, it is God's gift that gives us life.