…But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added onto you.

It is obvious that we are not fulfilling Lord’s words consigned upon us, because our eyes are darkened to see it, to see the gist of these words and to live it.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, at the beginning of the Gospel emphasised that our eye is obscure and sleek, that we look through that eye, namely, through that darkness for which we think, and are even convinced, is the brightness. Due to this, everything around us is dark. This means that our eye, which is our mind, is darkened and our heart is full of passion and is bloted by passions, and that is when we see the world through our passions and we cannot recognise the Truth, we cannot see the true brightness and true lession/enlightenment, the true gist of what the Lord is telling us: But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added onto you.

If the Lord is caring about the birds and the animals and the plants and even attires meadows with flowers, and as He says: And yet I say onto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these, and we will understand His words and we will live according to His commandments.

However, it is sad that not living as such, we show that we are blind. That blindness of ours cannot be cured by shopping, markets, beauty salons and by different delights of the wide road and comforts of this world and fulfilling our passions, and by this we darken our eye even more and even more our eye becomes blind to these words, which are salvaging and essential for us: …But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added onto you.

If we really seek God and His kingdom, then what more do we need? That is when we’d trully have everything. Absolutely everything. When we become His Children, this is when He will be our Father and everything that is His will become ours and he will care for us. However, we can notice that we don’t want what we need, but we want more than that. This is where our worries, nervousness, mutual intolerances and hatred come from. And this is why our Lord says: « No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the oher. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.»

Namely, we cannot serve this world, with its criterias, and with the people that dictate its tempo and style, and concurrently serve God.

Because of this, God advices us that firstly we have to Love God and his commandments, considering He is consistant and eternal, and our soul, namely man itself is made from God, also made for God and to be with God. However, this cannot be reached by living in luxury, but before all with repentance, humble living in constant crying for our sins, in constant fight to clense our passions, with gracefull patience of willing and unwilling sorrows and suffering, namely, temptations and tribulations, with confession and sacrament and constant calling of the Lord’s name: Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me… This way, we will truly show that we love God with all of our hearts, and all of our minds and all of our souls and then we will let God into our hearts and we will inherit His kingdom that has been prepared for us.

Carstvoto Nebesno. . . 06.07.2008

. . . Barajte go najnapred carstvoto na Boga i Negovata pravda, a seto ova }e vi se pridodade.

O~igledno e deka ne gi ispolnuvame ovie Bo`ji zborovi upateni kon nas, zatoa {to na{ite o~i se pomra~eni za da go vidat toa, za da ja vidat su{tinata na zborovite i da ja `iveat.

Na{iot Gospod Isus Hristos vo po~etokot na ova Evangelie istakna deka na{eto oko e temno i lukavo, taka i nie gledame preku toa oko, odnosno, preku taa temnina za koja mislime, pa duri sme i ubedeni, deka e svetlina. Od ovaa pri~ina se okolu nas e temno. Toa zna~i deka ako na{eto oko, koe e umot, e pomra~eno a na{eto srce e ostrasteno i izvalkano od strastite, toga{ siot svet nie go gledame preku tie na{i strasti i nemo`eme da ja spoznaeme Vistinata, nemo`eme da ja vidime vistinskata svetlina, vistinskata pouka, vistinskata su{tina na ona {to Gospod ni go veli: Barajte go najnapred Carstvoto Nebesno, a seto ova }e vi se pridade.

AkoGospod se gri`i za pticite i za `ivotnite i za rastenijata, duri i gi ukrasuva cve}iwata vo livadata, i kako {to veli Toj: Ni Solomon, koj {to bil najbogat car vo istorijata na ~ove{tvoto, ne se oblekol taka kako eden od polskite krinovi toga{ i nie }e gi razberevme ovie Negovi zborovi i }e `iveevme spored Negovite zapovedi.

Me|utoa, nie za `al, ne`iveejki taka poka`uva deka sme slepi. Taa na{a slepost pak nemo`eme da ja izle~ime odejki po pazari{tata, prodavnicite, salonite i po raznite zadovolstva na {irokiot pat na komformizmot od ovoj svet, i zadovoluvaj}i si gi na{ite strasti, so toa se pove}e go pomra~uvame na{eto oko i se pove}e na{eto oko stanuva slepo za da gi vidi i po~uvstvuva ovie zborovi, koi{to se mnogu spasitelni i su{testveni za nas: Barajte go najnapred carstvoto Bo`jo i Negovata pravda i seto ova }e vi se pridodade.

Ako navistina go barame Boga i Negovoto carstvo, toga{ {to ni treba pove}e od toa? Toga{, vistina imame se. Apsolutno se. Koga }e bideme Negovi deca, toga{ i Toj }e bide na{ Otec i se {to e Negovo }e bide i na{e i }e se gri`i za nas. Me|utoa, nie}e zabele`ime deka ne go sakame toa {to ni e potrebno tuku sakame pove}e od toa. Od tuka se i na{ite gri`i, nervozi, me|usebni netrpenia i omrazi. I zatoa Gospod veli: ”Никој не може да им служи на два(jcata) господара; зашто или едниот ќе го мрази, а другиот ќе го љуби; или ќе му биде приврзан на едниот, а другиот ќе го презира. Не можете да им служите на Бога и на мамона.” Odnosno, nemo`eme da mu slu`ime na ovoj svet, na kriteriumite na ovoj svet i na lu|eto koi go diktiraat negovoto tempo i stil, a istovremeno da mu slu`ime na Boga.

Zaradi toa Gospod ne sovetuva deka nie treba najprvo da go vozqubime Boga i Negovite zapovedi, bidej}i edinstveno Toj e nepromenliv i ve~en, a na{ata du{a, odnosno samiot ~ovek e sozdaden od Boga i e sozdaden za Boga, I da bide so Boga. Me|utoa, kako {to rekov, toa ne se postignuva so `iveewe vo rasko{ot od ovoj svet, tuku pred se, so pokajno smireno `iveewe vo neprestaen pla~ za svoite grevovi, vo neprestajna borba za o~istuvawe na svoite strasti, so blagodarstveno trpewe na volnite ili nevolnite bolki i stradanija, odnosno isku{enija i maki, so ispoved i pri~est i so neprestajno prizivawe na imeto Bo`jo: Gospod Isuse Hriste, pomiluj me... Na toj na~in, vistina }e poka`eme deka nie sme go vozqubile Boga so seto svoe srce, so siot svoj um i so seta svoja du{a, i toga{ Gospod }e go primime vo na{eto srce i }e go nasledime Negovoto carstvo {to e prigotveno za nas.