{"id":166,"date":"2010-03-13T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T21:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=166"},"modified":"2010-03-13T21:09:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T21:09:24","slug":"prayer-of-st-ephrem-syrian-about-lust-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Prayer of St. Ephrem Syrian (about Lust of Power)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are continuing our series of explanations of the great prayer of St. Ephrem Syrian. Today we are talking about &#8216;Lust of Power&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>If you have problem watching video on this page, please try direct youtube link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=je5S__MG5Uk\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/je5S__MG5Uk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/je5S__MG5Uk\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p> Lust of power! Strange as it may seem, it is precisely sloth and despondency that fill our life with lust of power. By vitiating the entire attitude toward life and making it meaningless and empty, they force us to seek compensation in, a radically wrong attitude toward other persons. If my life is not oriented toward God, not aimed at eternal values, it will inevitably become selfish and selfcentered and this means that all other beings will become means of my own self-satisfaction. If God is not the Lord and Master of my life, then I become my own lord and master &#8212; the absolute center of my own world, and I begin to evaluate everything in terms of my needs, my ideas, my desires, and my judgments. The lust of power is thus a fundamental depravity in my relationship to other beings, a search for their subordination to me. It is not necessarily expressed in the actual urge to command and to dominate &#8220;others.&#8221; It may result as well in indifference, contempt, lack of interest, consideration, and respect. It is indeed sloth and despondency directed this time at others; it completes spiritual suicide with spiritual murder.<\/p>\n<p>(by protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are continuing our series of explanations of the great prayer of St. Ephrem Syrian. Today we are talking about &#8216;Lust of Power&#8217; If you have problem watching video on this page, please try direct youtube link HERE. Lust of power! 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