But man keeps flippantly repeating his old delusion, which was noticed and so well expressed almost 20 centuries ago: "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and live there for one year"... The immutability of everyday logic! The constancy of the physical phenomena of the alternation of day and night, the ebb and flow of the tide, the constant hotness of fire and the coldness of ice, draws man's superficial thought to the conclusion that both his "tomorrow" and the "day after tomorrow" follow with the certainty and logic of physical laws from his "today"... This unfounded thought and false faith in the permanence and durability of earthly values and phenomena must be replaced by the true belief that people always and in everything depend first of all on the decisions of the holy and great will of God. "If it pleases the Lord, and we live, we will do this or that," is the infallible formula that applies to our future, not only personal, but all of humanity. If we repress, even a little, from our consciousness this unnatural attitude to life, which stems only from our self-conceit and self-confidence, we will immediately see all the impossibility and irrationality of building our future only on such sand, or rather on such a pair, as is our human will and our physical life: "For what is your life? A vapor that appears for a short time, and then disappears..."

But here's what is surprising: for all his weakness and mortality, man is, at the same time, an amazing strength. Not physical, not material, but spiritual: a huge spiritual-creative or a huge spiritual-destructive force. Man conquers mountains and oceans, rules in the bowels of the earth, asserts his power over the air, builds quickly and just as quickly destroys many things. Being physically weaker, shorter-lived, and in many ways imperfect than animals and even plants, he dominates them. Where does a person get such power over the world? Where did he get such power over the elements, among all the cobwebs of his life? There is only one answer: from the spirit, from the spiritual essence invisible to its eyes, from the precious seal of the higher world on it. However, the very energy and force of this negation in the materialists comes not from matter, but from their spirit, even if it is blind and sick, but the spirit that bears the seal of the higher world.

Man is not alone in the world

The Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, says: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1), that is, God created the heavens, the world of spiritual beings, and the earth, the world of physical phenomena. God is the Spirit who penetrates all things, creates all things, and protects them. To believe in God is to live and be in His spirit and truth. To the realm of the invisible world belongs by his spiritual nature every man with all the people who have died since the beginning of time; All generations that have left the Earth live in another world, in a different plane of the universe, in a different dimension of existence. "God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, with Him all are alive," says the Holy Scriptures. "

After the destruction of our fragile, so fragile earthly body, we, people (whether we like it or not) will pass into the mysterious realm of the spirit and discover to the end the essence of our character and the moral potential of our personality... Our thoughts, feelings, and desires, especially the inclinations to good and the repulsion from evil, do not even now belong to the material world; but spiritual. Although the material world influences us from different sides, our personality always remains free to make or not to make this or that moral decision, to relate in one way or another to any physical phenomenon...

Human life is deep, the human personality is great in its capabilities; as in a mirror it is able to reflect God's perfection. The truth about God the Creator is not only told by religion; it is proclaimed by all nature, all life and the essence of things. World... created according to the Divine plan by the power of the great creative will of God. Just as an insect does not understand the plans of man, so man is unable to comprehend all the mysteries of the Divine world; he comprehends only what God Himself reveals to him. The essence of even the smallest blade of grass in the world is as mysterious as the existence of the greatest starry worlds.

In her book "Man Is Not Alone", the former president of the New York Academy of Sciences, Cressie Morrison, says that people are now at the dawn of the scientific era, and each new discovery reveals to them with greater force and brightness the work of the all-wise Creator... "As for me," says Morrison, "I have seven reasons for faith. First of all, based on the inviolable laws of mathematics, it can be proven that our universe was conceived and created by a great constructive Mind. The presence of living organisms on our planet presupposes such an incredible number of all kinds of conditions for their existence that the coincidence of all these conditions cannot be a matter of chance. The earth, for example, rotates on its axis at a speed of only a thousand miles per hour. If it were spinning at the speed of a hundred miles an hour, our days and nights would be ten times longer, and the sun would burn our plants during that day, while on that long night even the very small shoots that could have appeared during the day would freeze. Further, the earth is removed from the sun at exactly the distance at which the fire of the sun warms us sufficiently, but not too much. If it only sent us 50 degrees less or more heat, we would either freeze or die from the heat.

The earth has an ellipse tilt of twenty-three degrees, which causes different seasons; Without this tilt, vapors rising from the ocean would move along the line of the north-south, piling up ice on our continents. If the moon were only fifty thousand miles away, instead of being about two hundred and forty thousand miles away, our ocean tides would be so great that they would flood our earth twice a day. If our atmosphere were more rarefied, burning meteorites (which burn up by the millions in space) would hit our earth daily from different directions, producing fires... These examples and many others show that there is not a single chance in a million that life on our planet is an "accident".

The American scientist cites a number of truths and proofs that are revealed in the study of nature, which also lead him directly to the Creator, God. Revealing the marvellous order that reigns in matter, he says that "the organization of the material requires us to recognize that only infinite Wisdom could have ordained and arranged such an amazing government of the world"...

Morrison also says that the fact that it is possible for man to perceive the idea of God "is already, in itself, an indisputable proof of His existence." And in this possibility of man to know and love the Creator, the scientist quite correctly sees "human" greatness.

With his free, honest thought, faith as the highest spiritual intuition, and prayer, a person can instantly traverse the entire distance that separates him from God. Prayer is the true nourishment of the spirit and the revitalization of the immortal being in man, it is the highest enlightenment of man. Whoever wants to pray to God will find prayer, and whoever finds it will never abandon it, because there is no greater good and happiness for a person than to talk to God – to realize and feel his living, personal communion with the Creator, with infinite love and truth. For His love and truth, every person who has not completely extinguished his spirit yearns.

The Light of the World

The light of the world is the truth of Christ. "I am the Light of the world," said Christ. The spiritual warmth of the world is the love of Christ, which is given to all people so that they may fill their spiritual being with it. Such is the life of the spirit. The spirit is nourished through prayer. Prayer is our first spiritual food. Just as we do not forget to eat, drink, warm ourselves, and clothe ourselves every day, so let us give our spirit prayer, love, and the truth of the Gospel. A bird not only builds a nest, it also flies and sings. And man was created not only to work, but also to love and pray.

A person must constantly bring his spirit into balance. Our spirit often wavers, we worry, lose our temper, and then we make life mistakes, hurt ourselves and others. A person who strives for a spiritual life must first of all seek balance, tranquility of spirit, peace of heart. To do this, a person must not be excessively partial to things, or to other people, or to himself. Having inner freedom, he must love all people, wish good to everyone, help whom he can, pray for everyone, for those who love him and especially for those who do not love him, so that darkness is opposed not by darkness, but by light. Man is called to worship only God.