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The object of our belief is the body of truths revealed by God. In the main they are things that are outside the natural sphere and unattainable by our ordinary powers. Things that belong to the order of nature may, however, be made known to us by revelation on account of their having some bearing on supernatural truths; but this is quite exceptional. The living Wisdom of God when walking on this earth made no revelation concerning even the most important of natural truths, science, history, economics, industry, art. Of such subjects it is written: "He hath delivered the world to their disputation." "This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men to be exercised therein" (Eccle. iii. 11, i. 13). The primary object of revelation, subserved by all other things, is God Himself, His greatness, His goodness, the ways of His Providence; and secondarily, the mysteries which flow from Him, the Incarnation, the future life, the fall, the Church, the Sacraments, the divine law. These are the most important objects of human knowledge, the most influential on human life, the most satisfying. St. Augustine truly says that he who knows divine truths, though he may know nought else, knows all things; and he who knows all things else and knows not these, knows nothing. Ask God to give you a deep insight into His divine mysteries and a perception of their harmony and beauty, with practical results in your spiritual life. Let them not degenerate into mere words and formulas.
