Archives for March 2017

Armament is related to weapons and wars, but also to all the necessary equipment for our daily struggle, for our survival, for our livelihood or for our mental growth and development.

Like every good general makes sure his soldiers are equipped with supplies and have suitable equipment for the war he sends them to, like every good father takes care of his children so that they have the necessary for their lives, like every good manager makes sure their company has the most modern equipment to produce competitive products and withstand today’s tough competition, so our Creator has taken care of our own supplies, of our own equipment that is necessary to deal with small and large obstacles, small and large challenges and temptations that block our own way, our own destination, our own will.

Within each of us there is a complete combat armor from our creator, not only to protect ourselves from the enemy’s attacks, but also to preserve the achievements, conquering daily the new horizons revealed to us.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, food supplements are increasingly catching up with the Western European and American markets – and not only that, but their demand from people is rising considerably.

It is obvious that these products, mainly compounds of various elements of the food we eat daily, help and contribute to the well-being and better balance of the human body and each person chooses the combinations that meet their personal and individual needs.

This lesson, the effort of all of us to improve our nutrition supplements in order to have a better day to day life, is important as an argument for the life of faith, since this life needs its own supplements, its own nutritional balances, and every person while examining themselves, is called to cover each of their organic needs of faith. Others need power, others need patience, and this is something that only the individual knows. And the decision to take any food or any supplement of the mental diet is totally personal.

Christ advises but does not force. God indicates and teaches, but the decision and responsibility of our actions is always and exclusively personal and individual.

The experience we gain over time in our lives is a double-edged knife.

On the one hand, it helps in the efficiency of our actions, but on the other hand it can become a habit and the cause of superficiality and carelessness, often, with sad consequences. Particularly the proactive and powerful people are at the center of risk, and self-testing is therefore an indispensable tool on a daily basis. Christ Himself, knowing this great danger of pride created by our successes, recommends self-control and determines the criterion by which we will measure our successes.

As the slave at that time did not acquire rights because he had executed his master’s commands, so the people of faith do not acquire rights of faith because we did what Christ has told us to do for our own sake.

Failure to perform involves laziness and inertia. Execution to gain rights over others, brings pride, increases selfishness, and the spirit of God does not follow.

Synopsis is the summary of a content. And the synopsis, the summary, can often predispose of the content, but the discovery of the content is there and it is waiting for everyone to discover it.

This means that the summary is necessary for issues that have large, extensive content, and to make our introduction to this big issue, we first need to know the summary and then go deeper, to look for the content that this summary states.

Only then is the summary meaningful, when it is accompanied by substantial extensive content which we are called upon to discover and understand. In the life of faith this is of paramount importance because, based on historical reality, it would never be possible to write down all the details of the events outlined in the Bible.

This is why the people of faith are called upon to know the summary of events, then to go deeper in the content, keeping in one hand the events of daily life, and in the other hand the Bible’s instructions on how to live effectively the life of faith that guarantees not only today but also the future of life.

Our signature confirms that the content of an act is our own work and not the work of another. Our attempt to deny our work is powerless when the work carries our own handwritten signature and not the handwritten signature of someone else. And it is well known in history that many have tried to intercept the content of an act by altering and violating the signatures.

However, in modern times theft is relatively easy to uncover, because we always leave personal traces, and if anyone wants to counterfeit or appropriate our own work, reality contradicts them. The social environment can have an effect on some of our actions, but the act itself always bears our signature and the contribution of social influences cannot be an alibi for an act we would like to forget.

Taking on the responsibility of an act with our mark is the safe prerequisite for any serious effort if we want to forget the bad past and build a safer, healthier and more efficient personal future.