пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 23 ОКТЯБРЯ 2016 ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЕ РАЗОЧАРОВАНИЯ - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today I want to talk about how we can get out of the impasse of disappointment. Of course, most of those present have heard this wisdom, which says that in order not to be disappointed, you need to learn not to be enchanted. I also heard it and also observed (and am observing) how people continue to be fascinated. Here are some simple examples: Young people, boys and girls want to start families. They strive for this because they are confident within themselves that this will make them happy. And the experience of others, showing that family life certainly does not consist of happiness alone, and even the Biblical exhortation spoken by Ap. Paul in love and in a fatherly way: “Even if you marry, you will not sin; and if the girl marries, she will not sin. But such will have tribulations according to the flesh; but I feel sorry for you” (1 Cor. 7:28) do not really stop anyone from getting married. I am categorically “for” creating families, but I am saying that family life is not a “universal recipe for happiness”! We simply come up with some “ideal” picture of family life for ourselves, but then we often need help in order to accept the reality of our family life, accept those “five things your spouse will never change” and live with him in love. Also, when going to get a job, we think about our income, we “distribute” the money we have not yet received, but the work itself is not in our perception what brings joy and satisfaction. Many times I have heard people say, “How can work bring joy? Work is just work." But here’s a paradox: To create a good family, a person needs to learn to be happy on his own; in order to really enjoy the results of his work, he needs to learn to enjoy the process of working! I want you to understand that I am talking today about our attitude to what is happening, about how those who make up the church think and behave. Unfortunately, we too are characterized by this “dreaming” and therefore we are also plunged into this state of disappointment, a state of fatigue from everything that happens. Today I am not trying to warn anyone, I am not trying to tell or teach you how to avoid disappointment (I have learned that this is a necessary part of the learning process), but I want to offer a way out for those who are already feeling this disappointment. When the “pendulum swings” in the other direction, it begins to seem to us that “there is no happiness,” but the Lord today wants to encourage each of us and confirm us in the fact that each of us can and is called to be a happy person. If we believe that there is a God (and His “I Am” does not depend on how we feel about ourselves, on our success and nothing “ours” at all), then in the same way we need to learn to believe in the happiness that is for us from God! And our task, our challenge is to find, discover this happiness, discover it in our lives. Therefore, we have a question: “Where and how to look for this happiness?” In order to set the direction, I want to quote the words of Moses: This commandment, which I command you today, is not inaccessible to you, nor far off; it is not in heaven so that one can say: “Who would ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, and let us hear it, and we would do it?” and it is not beyond the sea, so that one could say: “Who would go over the sea for us and bring it to us, and let us hear it, and we would do it?” but this word is very near to you: it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. Deut. 30:11-14. Happiness is just around the corner, not beyond the seas, it does not lie in changing our marital status or in increasing our income, no, it is “within us” and this is the greatest discovery of all times! And it is we, the Church of the Living God, who are called to open and release it. While we are looking for “simple human happiness”, looking in the same way as the people of this world are looking, we will again and again find ourselves in this disappointed state, because this is the path of great seduction and the race for the “ghost of happiness”. But if we stop, if we agree with God, who wants to make us happy “here and now,” then no one and nothing can interfere with our happiness. Observing how people (including myself) behave and react when they are in this disappointed state, I understand more and more that disappointment is a persistence in unwillingness to admit one’s “failure” in the search for happiness! It would seem so simple to stand up and say before God: “I was looking for happiness where there is none, I wanted to take it myself, but now I understand my mistake, I repent of this.” “selfhood” and I want to receive the happiness that You, Lord, prepared for me before the creation of the world.” But somehow, instead, I watch the people who make up the church try again and again to “become” happy. And they are so busy with this, so preoccupied and carried away, that they have no time to even think that where they are running there will not be what they are running for! Friends, our happiness is in the same way as God is and in the same way as we accept God, as we confess to Him?