Main news for 1 March 2025

These words of Deuteronomy, recorded at the latest in the year 620 before. J.C., but pronounced much more early, are one of the illustrious revelations on the freedom of the person. God's word says to us here that freedom consists of the reality of choice that God proposes to us. The right to choose and assume the responsibility of our choice is given to us. It is a frightening revelation, because the proposed choice is difficult, and sometimes beyond ones strength. Because by choosing life, we also choose lifestyle; by choosing death, we think that we choose what seems at the moment good to us. But it is also a very merry revelation, because none of us is capable of living without this freedom.

But these words contain another more important revelation on the love of the Creator. In this difficult and responsible choice accompanying us every minute, God does not leave us alone. "Therefore choose life!" -the voice of God rings through centuries, calling us to salvation. God's will is that we chose life; "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked", - will say the Lord through the prophet Ezekiel. And we read again one exclusive revelation in these two verses. The stereotypes of our culture compel us to think that life is a certain physiological notion. "The means of existence of protein bodies" and the "metabolism" - Here are the key sentences that we all heard about life in school. But life in reality is not like that. Man’s life, says the God Who created us, consists in dwelling (live in the physiological sense), loving God, listening to Him, and the most important: cleaving unto Him. Longing for unity with God - here is the main sense and life, and faith. It is necessary to notice that the verb "to cleave" is rarely used in the Bible; Man is called to cleave unto God and unto his wife. Obviously, it is about different things; but it is important to understand that in one as in the other case, it is a matter of the most accessible for the personality of a degree of unity with another.