Archives for November 2016

With this unpredictable title for the series of messages about the relationship with our Creator, I want to direct our thinking not to the perfect appearance of an expensive car, but into the world of commercial values ​​that modern objects have.

Although the commercial values ​​of modern objects and treasures are not affected by our Great Master himself, however, he has changed the viewpoint of approaching the will of our Creator. The new perspective is not only the discovery and acquisition of treasures, but it is mainly the commercial profit that results from the trade of our treasures.

The trader does not win when he buys, because at that moment he takes money out of his wallet. He wins and has the profit when he sells the existing stocks of the items he trades. And to make a profit, hard work is required from the merchant, hard programming, and excellent knowledge of the market -the place where the traders gather, where there is fierce competition, where someone will present their merchandise and someone else will buy it.

The trader is not acting alone. He is not locked in his rich tower. He buys and sells, he gains from buying and selling, because if he stops doing this activity he will lose the tower and he himself will be destroyed.

In a theoretical approach, knowledge seems to be of no practical interest, since even with the few things I know I can manage in my life. But if we look for the real dimensions of knowledge in our everyday life then it turns out that no one can live without knowledge.

And not only that; The better one knows something, the better they can manage it, whether it concerns people’s relationships or technical skills, or a more general knowledge and perception of things. There is innate knowledge and abilities, but there is also acquired knowledge and abilities and these are not only more in number but also more essential for our practical life.

The innate knowledge and momentum has been placed by the Creator within us, without our own personal involvement. However, the acquired knowledge, that with which we manage our everyday matters, is our personal affair and the acquisition and cultivation of it depends to a great extent on our individual effort.

Because knowledge leads to awareness and awareness leads to the understanding and effectiveness of my actions.

Perfection is the dream of every human being. For life, for beauty, for profession, for everything, the goal is perfection, and to achieve it we spend time, money, activity. But for every case there are analogies about what perfection is.

What it actually means, however, is something that has a beginning and an ending and it does not conceal a vanishing intent in the blank or the unknown. Perfect is what has a beginning, a duration, but it also has a brilliant end, and that’s what we all appreciate as perfection. And because there is no perfect thing on earth, as we all know from our personal experience, it is obvious that what we all seek is the path to perfection;  a path that brings the best result in all areas of our everyday life.

And that’s what Christ promised to people; the path to perfection, the way to the best result, the knowledge and the personal experience that leads from little to a lot and from good to better and to maturity, elements that form the trunk of all our efforts.

Renewing means bringing something new, doing something new, transforming the old into new. I may keep some of the past, some things may seem to be the same, but in essence everything is new every day. Every morning nature appears new, renewed. No moment is the same as a previous one. And that’s the great secret of the Great Creator. He does not repeat Himself, He does not lack new inspiration, His sources are not steadfast, and He is not tired of doing new things every day.

And this truth, which does not need any more analyzing, is the mirror of our personal life. The weary man is far from the waters of renewal, the wounded man lacks the gift of forgiveness, the humiliated man cannot see far because someone has stolen this divine gift; the gift of imitating their Creator, seeking the living relationship with a  living god, to see the world with new eyes every day, to ask for their visions to become reality.

Choosing as a process is a basic tool of our everyday life. We choose a mate, choose clothes, choose a destination for our holiday, choose a job, and we can continue to record endless lists of topics for which we have the exclusive responsibility of choice.

The basic parameter of my choices is always the possibilities offered, i.e. how many options I have, in order to choose the one that suits my need. If, as we say, my choice is one-way because I have no choice, then my responsibility is limited to denying or accepting the opportunity offered. But in life this rarely happens.

As a rule we have many choices and what we choose is what we want, what we judge to be of interest to us and therefore our best choice. So if my choices are crucial for my day-to-day decisions, it is obvious that in the case of greater choices, especially those concerning my future, they are also of great importance and determine the developments in my life.

That is why the Apostle Paul recommends to those who seek the living relationship with the living god not to choose the mediocre choices but to choose the best and the greatest, the most essential and not the humble, the productive choices and not the ones who will hide the talent in a place for safekeeping.