Wisdom from the Holy Father

I wanted to share a quote from Pope Benedict that I read today in Magnificat Magazine.

The editorial by Father Peter John Cameron, O.P. says,

"The Holy Father goes on to explain that we worship God 'by dropping the fiction of a realm in which we could face Him as independent business partners, whereas in truth we can only exist at all in Him and from Him.'"

We are not God's "business partners" and we are certainly not God's equals in any way. If we were, He would not be God at all. God is not a magic 8 ball for us to manipulate and control to suit our quest for knowledge alone; even knowledge of ourselves. We were created, as the Baltimore Catechism tells us,

to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in heaven.