Main news for 19 April 2017

It is unlikely that carelessness is the ideal, to which the apostle Paul summons his readers. Indeed, carelessness is always connected to irresponsibility, to the refusal of the responsibility, which the Creator commends us. But the apostle says rather how we should care correctly. Neither anxiety, nor the forfeit of sanity, nor the exhaustion of people surrounding by one’s own complaints can be called the right forms of care. Instead of all this, the apostle suggests us to always unveil our demands to God. Well then, the responsibility that God gave to each of us gets filled with His creative power.

From the point of view of the technology of spiritual life, it is not less important the fact as the apostle calls us to thanksgiving. It is also about gratitude for all the mercies which we have already received from God, and about gratitude connected to concrete demands. The fact is that, in such way not the strength of our anxiety expresses itself in our demands to God, but the strength of our faith.

And the apostle concludes his thought with the indication of the most mattering in our everyday spiritual work: the aspiration to the peace of God. This peace is much deeper than the emotional tranquility; it is especially why we can keep it for most difficult circumstances. And it {the peace} is indispensable for us, in order to be with God. Maybe, the main source of the torments of the human mind is the fact that we try to satisfy the need put in us in God's world by substitutes. But in reality this peace is reached by such childlike openness to God, which the apostle Paul talks about.