Main news for 12 September 2024

So what: if His thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways also, does it mean that everything is useless? How to live with such a God, how to understand Him? Probably, in no way. But what is our thoughts and our ways? When, at which moment they become ours separated from Him? Indeed, from the beginning, from the moment of the creation His breath beats in us, becoming our heart, this spiritual heart, where is born the will and the determination, where the choice is made and decisions are taken. Then when and why His thoughts stopped being ours? Every person, familiar to the biblical history will say: at the moment of the fall. But what then happened? Man wanted to become "as God" (in the Hebrew text it is really like this). In what? By measuring force? Or knowledge? Surely, no: for, such a thing even to us fallen men seems absurd. Then in what In the knowledge of the good and evil? But before the fall, people did not know what is good and what is bad?

Of course they knew, otherwise any prohibitions lose any moral sense, as the notion of sin itself. But indeed, there is another thing here: the desire to decide by ourselves what is good for us, and what is bad. Ourselves, without Him. Not according to His orders, but independently, as adults.

So it seemed. But in the facts it is particularly at this moment that the will of man began to part from God's will. But He did not take away from us His breath, did not deprive us of the heart. Just that this breath began to be felt more and more weaker, and together with it weakened even the will, which before the fall determined our entire life, spiritual and physical. And after - more and more - our will began to obey what it was called to rule.

And the more it obeyed, the less we had the power for the opposition of what we shouldn’t resist, of course if the relationships with God for us were not just simple words. So gradually, step by step, our will separated from His will, and our ways - from His ways. Of course, it does not belong to man to know the depths of the Personality of God. They are only known by Himself, and no one else. But to know His will and His ways defined by Him for us, man was always capable. For as long as he did not want to live himself, separated from God, in his small world. According to his will. And according to his ways.