Archives for February 28, 2017

An experiment is called the effort to prove that something is actually happening and I prove it through repeated confirmations.

The experience that I gain as I try something, leads an experiment of any initial failures to the ultimate success.

And we all know that our everyday life is now more and more framed by data that have not only experienced a long experimental process, such as health, safety, etc, but even after successful experiments, there are efforts for improvement through continuous observation and testing new data. This is how mankind has been going through the 20th century.

Every day without understanding it, we ourselves experiment with thousands of things and in the end we follow the conclusion that we think can satisfy our demands.

This happens in driving our car, and in thousands of other habits that require our own personal responsibility.

So, it’s a very good question why when we come to the issues of faith in the living God, suddenly the experiment, the test, every effort to extract safe conclusions, is not only excluded from our individual and personal spiritual system but we are rushing to throw to the fire every effort to improve the tools and methods of exercising our faith.

A young man approaches Christ and asks him what he can do to inherit eternal life. He is wealthy, has inherited many estates, is pious and approaches Christ on his knees, but has not realized that not everything is inherited.

He may have inherited real estate and securities, may have inherited family virtues, he may regularly go to his Synagogue, but he knows that something is missing and this something is not the Mosaic Law that he knows well and has always abided by.

He knows that what he’s missing is not among what he has already inherited or has already conquered.

He senses that the secret is held by Christ alone and is rushing to seek answers to his questions. But the Master’s response is far from his legacy. He asks him to leave the property to the poor and to follow Christ, not barefoot, but baring his cross. And the young man leaves frustrated because every thought involving loss of property and social appreciation is beyond his powers.

Suddenly, the supplies that he inherited from his parents, the ossessions and virtues, are no longer a necessity, but have become an obstacle in the way that Christ suggests to him in order to discover what his soul seeks.