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The concept of applying is related to the joint and the connection. Joint is the point of contact between two or more things and allows coexistence and cooperation. In our modern life, all the objects we use are characterized by the utilization of this technique, the assembly, the adaptation and the application in our everyday life.

If there is a theory, its application proves its correctness and operational value. Until then, there is a theory of no practical value for the everyday person. Christ has recommended the same logic to you and me; to put into practice – in a functional and productive combination – the elements of his teaching and not just listen to them.

The eagerness and cost of foolish virgins in the parable where they went to obtain the oil in the night proves that the judgment of God is not emotional but is based on numbers and results practically. The cost of the fool’s house built on the sand and did not make the building safe, was that it fell down precisely because he had not applied the common sense of things.

And to apply something, I have to know it, to have tried it and experimented with it personally so I know the result safely. Responsibility is always a personal matter and is not transferred to third parties.

To develop means to unfold something that exists in a compact form. It does not mean creating something new, but I develop the existing, grow it, remove the folds and bring it to its true dimension.

The precondition of development is existence. Growth follows. This sequence of things is crucial because if someone thinks they have something but do not actually have it, then they try to develop it, unfold it, give it the shape it ought to have but there is a tragic mistake in this reasoning: there is no such thing, there is no such issue to discuss the next stage of development. In order for a baby to grow up, a prerequisite is that it is born and its development follows.

The baby’s birth does not precede his or her development.

And we all understand that such tragic failures in our consciousness have an abstractive and destructive character because we spend in real materials to build fantastic walls in a building that does not exist and in the end there is a pile of materials and ruins that have cost us trouble and time and money without a final edifice.

In the field of faith in the living God, this naivety has zero results, high costs and debris that create a burden and a barrier and not natural supply and enrichment.

Disappointment torments all people in all times of mankind and is related to our failed efforts. Every time we try something and do not succeed, there is even a little disappointment; an element of our complex internal mechanism, which judges and marks our efforts and our success or failure.

This very internal mechanism is absolutely personal and no one can really get involved. I succeed in my effort and I am pleased. I fail in my attempt and I suffer disappointment. People in the environment may be compassionate or rejoice with us, but the disappointment of failure is an internal wound that weakens our will, brings a climate of defeat, and the confidence in our abilities and our personality is gradually lost. And while I’m failing in the physical world, the consequences torture my inner, mental world.

In the life of living faith the elements of disappointment from my failed efforts are lessons, not suffrages. They are challenges for a repetition of effort and empowering personality rather than sick despondency of despair.

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.