THE FULLNESS OF LIFE
The Ultimate Seven: Fundamental principles of a God-centered life
(4th of a Series)
2) God is the Ultimate End.
Life has a goal, a destiny, and end. Human life, especially, with all its mystery and complexity, must have a goal or an end that is big enough to encompass all its hopes and dreams and visions. Its end must be noble enough to be worthy of its dignity. For human life which is the apex of the physical life that we know even integrates within it both the intellectual and spiritual dimensions which mysteriously transcend our most penetrating intuition and understanding. And what goal or end can there be which is bigger and more encompassing, or more noble and worthy of human life than God Himself? Nothing whatsoever can satisfy and fulfill the life of a human person except the Supreme Good. God who in His infinite love has created every human person also has imprinted His image and likeness and ignite the spark of His own divine life into each human being so that the longings of every human heart can only be quenched by nothing less than God Himself, the Goal and the Ultimate End of human life.
Our life then can claim of having attained its mature clarification about its ultimate meaning, purpose and end only if, with St. Augustine in his celebrated work as a mature thinker, The Confessions, can express out: "You made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rest in You."