What Do I Gain From a Relationship With God? My Reflection Today.

What Do I Gain From a Relationship With God? My Reflection Today.

Even the Apostles asked this question. “What then will there be for us?” Peter asked Jesus in Matthew 19:27. It is a question every sincere heart eventually raises: What do I really gain from following God?

Saint Thomas Aquinas would answer with deep clarity: we gain the ordering of our life toward its highest end — God Himself. The human soul, made in the image of God, finds no lasting peace in created things. Only when it is properly ordered — intellect guided by truth, will drawn by love, passions governed by virtue — does it find true harmony. This is the beginning of divine friendship.

In God, we receive not just peace in this world, but a peace that surpasses it — a peace the world cannot give (John 14:27). We are given grace in suffering, meaning in sacrifice, and joy even amid trial. Most of all, we are promised eternal life: not merely endless existence, but union with the infinite goodness and beauty of God.

To be in relationship with God is not to escape this world, but to see it rightly — as the pathway to our eternal homeland. Ordered life. Interior peace. Eternal promise. These are not just theological ideals — they are the fruits of grace for every soul that says yes to Christ.