Redeeming The Time

We will never find something if we search were it is not. The world searches for assurance, happiness, peace, where it is not. We reference a recent article a young man who searched for meaning in his life in the wrong place, and ended up mutilating his body, and how is case is typical for most people, not in the exact details, but in the spiritual error. The opening of the epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians included this statement: “For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance.” Where do we get this assurance? It is a critical question in our day. The mind and heart of St Paul, expressed with brilliance and affection in the first few verses of his introduction, together with the Gospel read during the liturgy (Luke 12:13-15, 22-31), teaches us the only path that will led to “much assurance.”