пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 12 ИЮНЯ 2016. ПРОЗРЕВАНИЕ СМЫСЛА ЖИЗНИ. - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today it is on my heart to talk about what is the meaning of our lives. Perhaps for some this is not a question, you think that you know exactly what the meaning of your life is, but time passes and it turns out that what you considered the meaning of your life has ceased to be so and you are looking again (and sometimes this search can be difficult), what is the meaning of your life. I want to start my discussion with a simple question: Why is it important for us to have meaning in our lives? Why do we experience suffering if we don’t understand why we live? I would venture to suggest that this is due to our primary need to be loved. Our logic (which we often do not realize) is this: If there is meaning in my life, then someone needs me, and this in turn means that there is something to love me for. And therefore, if it suddenly turns out that the meaning is lost, it turns out that whether we are there or not, everything goes as it goes, then we may even experience panic or suicidal attacks, it may begin to seem to us that we are “empty space”, and unfortunately, sometimes in such cases we try to act like that “uncle of the most honest rules” whom the poet describes. We try to convince others and even ourselves that there is meaning in our lives, and by meaning we mean some kind of necessity or “usefulness”. I have observed many times how people, who for some reason had lost or outgrown their previous understanding of the meaning of life, tried to invent it, tried to “produce” it, and nothing good came of it. We, as Christians, as people of faith, know from Scripture that the Lord has endowed our lives with a certain meaning and that our task and responsibility is to discover these meanings, or, as the church fathers say, “to see the light,” i.e. to see with our spiritual gaze what we are intended for by the Lord. And the hardest thing about this for us is to understand that this is not connected with any concept of “usefulness” or with any necessity for God. This is what the Lord says: If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the universe and everything that fills it are Mine. Do I eat the flesh of oxen and drink the blood of goats? Sacrifice praise to God and render your vows to the Most High, and call on Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify Me.' Ps. 49:12-15. It says that God has absolutely no need for anything we can offer Him! But here we can also see that He puts His meaning into our existence - He calls us to be worshipers, to be those who give Him glory. And in this, God leads us to see that everything, all the meanings that we put into our understanding of the meaning of life, ultimately boiled down to one thing, boiled down to the question: What will I get from this? But the meaning that He puts into our lives comes down to a completely different question: What can I give to Him, the One who, by definition, does not need anything? And it is precisely this opposition of the meanings of human and Divine understanding of the purpose of life that makes Christianity a “narrow and thorny” path that not many people follow. Just recently we heard King David here explain to his wife that his humiliation before God was the way to exalt him as king of Israel. When David returned to bless his house, Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet him and said: How the king of Israel distinguished himself today, naked today before the eyes of his servants, as some empty man is exposed! And David said to Michal, “Before the Lord, who preferred me to your father and to all his house, having established me as leader of the Lord’s people Israel; I will play and dance before the Lord; and I will humble myself even more, and become even more insignificant in my eyes, and before the maidservants of whom you speak, I will be glorious. 2 Kings 6:20-22. Here, in this dialogue, this opposition of meanings that I am talking about today is clearly visible. David wanted to get “lost” in his worship, trusting God to find him as king of the people of Israel. And this is the time when we feel lost, lost, when we expect with faith that the Lord will find us, as the Psalmist says: Commit your way to the Lord and trust in Him, and He will perfect and bring out your righteousness and your justice is like the noonday (Ps. 37:5-6), this time of waiting is not easy for us, because at this time there may not be any obvious signs that our life has any meaning! That is why this is written for us who live in the last days: He who endures to the end will be saved. Matt. 24:13. Our worship becomes true precisely when all meaning is lost in it. As long as we worship “with meaning” in it, in this worship, for reasons independent of us, there will be a moment of our self-interest. And only when we come to the worship that the prophet Habakkuk describes, to worship that humanly could be called “impossible”: even if the fig tree did not blossom and there was no fruit on the vines, and the olive tree changed, and the field did not produce food , at least there would be no more sheep in the fold and no more cattle in the stable?