st john the baptist mass schedule 2018.01.28. Meditation on 1 Peter 4:8 (Fervent love)

Meditation on Scripture: 1 Peter: 4:8
"Above all, have a fervent love for one another"
Excerpt from the Russian book "Day by Day", translated and presented by Dimitry Zarechnak
Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Washington, DC
January 28, 2018

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Day by Day March 13 (March 26)
Scripture: “Above all, have a fervent love for one another” (1 Peter 4:8)

Meditation:

“God’s love, as a perfect love, leads us to the highest good and desires for us the achievement of the goal which God indicates.
And so, this is the type of love that St. Peter speaks of, calling it ‘fervent’, calling us to grow in it, i.e. calling for its development in ourselves. A fervent love is sincere, constant, never-tiring, irrepressible, a love which is ‘patient, not irritable, does not demand its own way, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance’ (1 Corinthians 13:5-7). Christian love is not the love of an idealist or a philosophical theory – it is reality, and life must be permeated with it, not only emotionally, but in action. And how can we grow in love? It is impossible to force it. On the contrary, force only kills love. Love, just like inspiration, is not something that we can summon into being: it comes from OUTSIDE, i.e. from above. But let us remember that if the way of love is still not open to us, the way of obedience to God is open to us, and love is often achieved through this. The Lord, in His infinite mercy, has created human nature in such a way that when a person fulfills an obligation out of conviction, emotion also arises within. If we don’t have a warm feeling, let’s not wait for it to arise: let’s do what love urges us to do even without the feeling, and a cold heart will become softer and warmer because of our actions. How often it happens that when we help our neighbor, we begin to feel compassion for him; and in time compassion becomes heartfelt attachment!

The healing of the man with the withered hand that we read of in the gospel (Luke 6:10) gives us a vivid example of this. Christ told the handicapped man to stretch out his hand while it was still withered, and when he faithfully stretched it out, immobile and withered, he was cured.

So let us stretch out our withered heart to Christ, let us obediently serve if we do not have love as yet – and love will come.”

13 (26) марта.
«Более же всего, имейте усердную любовь друг к другу» (1Петр 4:8)

Любовь Божия, как любовь совершенная, ведет нас к высшему благу, желает для нас прежде всего достижения цели, указанной Господом.
Итак, вот о какой любви говорит ап. Петр, называя ее «усердною», призывая нас к возрастанию в ней, т.е. к развитию ее в себе. Усердная любовь – значит искренняя, непрестанная, неутомимая, неудержимая, любовь, которая «долготерпит, не раздражается, не ищет своего, всего надеется, все переносит» (1Кор. 13:5–7). Христианская любовь не мечта идеалиста или теория философа, она – действительность, и жизнь должна быть всецело пропитана ею не в чувстве только, но на деле.

Каким же образом можем мы возрастать в любви? Силой сделать это невозможно. Сила, напротив, убивает любовь. Любовь, так же как и вдохновение, не может быть вызвана нами самими: она приходит извне, т. е. свыше. Но будем помнить, что если нам еще недоступен путь любви, то открыт путь послушания Богу, и этим часто достигается любовь. Господь в Своем бесконечном милосердии так создал природу человека, что по мере того, как он исполняет долг по убеждению, пробуждается в нем и чувство. Если в нас нет теплого чувства, не будем ждать, когда оно придет. Начнем и без него делать то, на что двинула бы нас любовь. И делами любви смягчится и согреется наше холодное сердце. Как часто услуга, оказанная ближнему, возбуждает в нас участие к нему. Участие же со временем переходит в сердечную привязанность!

Исцеление сухорукого, о котором читаем в Евангелии (Лк. 6:10), поясняет нам это живым образом. Христос велел больному протянуть к Нему руку, когда она была еще суха и неподвижна. Больной силою веры смог протянуть ее и исцелился. И мы протянем сухое сердце ко Христу, будем служить послушанием, если еще нет любви – и любовь придет.

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