In the beginning there was Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God. The Logos is the expression of what God is outwardly. God, eternally being who he is, makes himself comprehensible to us through immaterial realities which are rightly called attributes of his. Meaning, concepts (of which there is an endless list) such as justice, goodness, beauty, order, truth, virtue, and power are all things that we can recognize by their instantiations in temporal reality. In our life we see beautiful, just, and good things. What we are supposed to understand is that although these physical things can be said to have these attributes, the attributes themselves are not physical. Moreover, all such concepts, or transcendentals, originate and proceed forth from God himself, thus ultimately making them possessions of his. The Logos, being the mind of God, is the sum total of all these immaterial realities. As such, the Logos is God made visible. All of this is to suggest that God is in fact extremely close to us, and engages with temporal reality. So, when you see good things you are seeing God participating in those things. Hence, whenever you perceive order in seasonal cycles, in the invisible hand of economics, in the natural world, and all other such things, we are witnessing God’s providence. With this in mind, whenever humanity attempts to usurp the Lord’s authority over these matters, or interfere with them at all, the inevitable result is some sort of breakdown or imbalance. In other words, things are most good, most just, and most beautiful when God participates in them as much as possible. He who acknowledges this truth is then obligated to take the next step and consciously invite God to govern his life, for he has conceded that when something its unnaturally removed from God’s purview, it tends towards degeneration. Meaning, when a man is devoid of those traits that all men are supposed to possess, it is because he has chosen not to turn to the Source of them. This explains why those who are godly are found to be full of good qualities, such as: righteousness, self-control, patience, calmness, love, etc. In the end it seems people do evil things because they don’t ask God to make them good. Perhaps the refusal to acknowledge their own spiritual poverty is intentional, their choosing to maintain the delusion that one’s own effort is sufficient to attain a blessed and fulfilled life, regardless of how much their conscience screams in agony to the contrary. To restate, the Logos eternally proceeds forth from God to us, when we see a transcendental like goodness, we are seeing the Logos, we are seeing God made intelligible. This principle of God reaching out to us through the Logos had its ultimate culmination in the incarnation of the Logos as a man named Jesus Christ. Taking all of this together its quite clear that God is calling us to have a relationship with him, him even sending his only begotten Son to reconcile us to himself. All we have to do is accept God’s love, to embrace a relationship with him.