NO MATTER WHAT COMES OUR WAY 🥊
WE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN GOD.
LYRICS 💽 1990
I remember long ago
Many things we didn't know
But hear me say
We still have time ⏰
Too many people
Change the world we live in
They don't know
They'll run out of time ⏰
I hear that voice getting stronger
You know that it's higher than hope ☦️
We won't have to wait any longer
Stand up and let them know
That you just won't let go 🥊
Every stone that's been placed in
The Empire of Ancient grounds
One day they'll fall - you'll say goodbye
United they stand
Today there one land
Nobody knows
Who'll say goodbye
I hear that voice getting stronger
You know that it's higher than hope ☦️
We won't have to wait any longer
Stand up and let them know
That you just won't let go 🥊
I hear that voice getting stronger
You know that it's higher than hope ☦️
We won't have to wait any longer
Stand up and let them know
That you just won't let go 🥊
I hear that voice getting stronger
You know that it's higher than hope ☦️
We won't have to wait any longer
Stand up and let them know
That you just won't let go 🥊
Stand up and let them know
That you just won't let go
I hear that voice getting stronger
You know that it's higher than hope ☦️
We won't have to wait any longer
Stand up and let them know
That you just won't let go 🥊
In having love toward your neighbour, you acquire within yourself, Him, who is most precious in the whole world. -- St. Isaac the Syrian 📖
Silence greatly helps in spiritual life.
It is good for one to practice silence for about an hour a day: to test himself, to acknowledge his passions and to fight in order to cut them off and purify his heart.
It is very good if there is a quiet room in the house which gives him the feeling of a monastic cell. There, “in secret,” he is able to do his spiritual maintenance, to study, and to pray.
A little spiritual study done before prayer
helps greatly.
The soul warms up and the mind is transported to the spiritual realm.
That’s why, when a person has many distractions during the day, he should rejoice if he has ten minutes for prayer, or even two minutes to read something, so as to drive away distractions.
- St. Paisios the Athonite ☦️
God is truth and light, God’s judgement is nothing else than our coming into contact with truth and light. In the day of the Great Judgement all men will appear naked before this penetrating light of truth. The ‘books’ will be opened. What are these ‘books’? They are our hearts. Our hearts will be opened by the penetrating light of God, and what is in these hearts will be revealed. If in those hearts there is love for God, those hearts will rejoice in seeing God’s light. If, on the contrary, there is hatred for God in those hearts, these men will suffer by receiving on their opened hearts this penetrating light of truth which they detested all their life. So that which will differentiate between one man and another will not be a decision of God, a reward or a punishment from Him, but that which was in each one’s heart; what was there during all our life will be revealed in the Day of Judgement. If there is a reward and a punishment during this revelation – and there really is – it does not come from God but from the love or hate which reigns in our heart. Love has bliss in it, hatred has despair, bitterness, grief, affliction, wickedness, agitation, confusion, darkness, and all the other interior conditions which compose hell. – St. Symeon the New Theologian 🙏🏻
The closer one is to God in reality -- and not simply in one's imagination -- the more one feels unworthy and sinful, more sinful than anyone else.
The Holy Fathers felt this way. There are many examples of this. The publican considered himself a sinner for altogether other reasons.
Nevertheless, he realized his sinful state and did not try to justify himself. He asked only for mercy and forgiveness of the Lord, and he received it.
Everybody has an insolvent debt before God. No amount of ascetic struggles can repay this debt. The Lord Himself says: If you do all that is demanded of you (that is, follow all the commandments), consider yourselves unprofitable servants whose duty it is to fulfill the master's order (Luke 17:10).
How necessary it is for us, who constantly break the commandments, to keep the same disposition of soul as the publican: not to look for virtues in ourselves.
Regardless of any spiritual labors we might undertake, we shall always remain abominable slaves. Only by the mercy of God, those who repent are forgiven and are vouchsafed to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
For this reason, the seeking of high spiritual states is forbidden by the Lord and by the Holy Fathers.
All our inner struggle should be concentrated on repentance and on everything which promotes that penitent state.
