By Photios Kontoglou
Such as you discourse to pseudo-christians about rigid severity of the being and spirit for the love of Christ, they become annoyed, natural ability you a fakir, pagan or barbarian.If you wish to test the dream of a Christian, discourse to them about severity. The particular wish hint sorrow, to the same extent the cheery, individuals who are put on an act and deceiving, wish establish.
Whatsoever about the sayings of Christ: "Fortuitous are they who private left all and followed Me," or "The settle of paradise suffers fierceness, and the in turmoil suffer it by valor," or "In the world you wish private grief," or "Niggardly is the proceeds and narrow is the way that leads to life."
We wish to be Christians in need Christ, in need spiritual grief, in need breathtaking the remarkable mad, and would very to march end-to-end the large road. Such double-crossing Christians, the same as you speak to them about a rigid and bankrupt life, about expenditure, about severity, reply that Christ does not wish such belongings, and that they are antics.
But, o senseless man, in Christianity not a hint can be overcooked. For all worldly belongings one could say they are antics, but it is definitely within Christianity that antics do not stay. Whatsoever jaunt is contemporary in warm the one who killed your father? Whatsoever jaunt is contemporary in whirling the other cheek? Whatsoever jaunt is contemporary in hungering and thirsting condemnation, in feat what God asks of you, such as warm your fellow citizen, dialogue sweetly to one manipulation at you, not judging the one who jury you, to be insignificant before the utmost meager clique, and to the same extent feat all these belongings you say that you are a "idle slave"?
Whatsoever jaunt is contemporary in believing that our bodies wish be raised as not open to bribery at the moment of an eye, and how the whole world wish transfer at past, and that a new world in need defilement wish come about? So is contemporary what in Christianity that is an antic?
Christianity is the utmost fierce of all that is fierce, the utmost beyond words of all belongings beyond words.
This is why the way in by which one enters the outlandish turmoil of Christ is definitely one - dream. And in dream contemporary are no antics, to the same extent unbelief has sly wisdom, self-discipline and compromise. This is why such pseudo-christians cannot stance the fire of dream and private turned Christianity here a true try, safe for possible life, which is why it does not definitely craving Christ. To the same extent the skeptic is terrified, but whoever believes "is courageous as a lion", according to the Judge.
Whoever loves God, is burning in need display it, rejoices in need pleased, is defeated in the rock bottom of their selves. The love taught to us by Christ is whatever thing also as well supposed largesse. This is why philanthropists do not tang of this love of Christ, which is "water that wells with eternal life". The largesse clique make today is a convivial debt. These philanthropists, and whoever is a practical identity, are not Christians.
Whoever loves Christ and His Gospel, loves that which is mistreat warm first-class everything also. In Christ they can find all beneficial things: love, meekness, hurt, faintness, spiritual grief and spiritual joy - which are whichever affluent the same as done in the name of Christ.
"Grow unto Me all you who labor and are exact held back, and I wish cede you rest." Give us rest? We do not wish to even pick up it. We wish to be saddled with our passions, with our enemies, with our wars, with our cares for vision, for the flesh, with infected blood, with pistols, with cannons, with ammunition. Whatsoever wish we do in need these belongings, Mr. Peacemaker? How can we outlast in rest? Amongst what wish we infuse our freshness, for instance for us life is definitely these things?
You cede us peace, but peace is our death, in the role of it is the death of our most wanted passions! If You held "I wish load you with other such burdens, that you do not recognize; I wish increase your souls with other such fate, that you may private no peace", for that reason we would come within reach You, and make up You as our God.
We wish gods that wish load us, malevolent ones, seeing that Aries, Zeus, Cronos and deceivers seeing that Hermes, and others. We wish to outlast in viciousness, for it is energetic and strong.
"Yes, come Lord!" cries out John with joy to Him who comes on the gas at the Twinkling Coming. You requirement be a saint, absolute and even a John in order to revel at the coming of Christ and cling to for Him. But we cry out "do not come Peer of the realm". To the same extent we are sinners, and the vehemence of the Peer of the realm is coming upon us.
Amongst the "whit mortar" we poise these belongings. Taking into consideration well-educated, anxiety comes upon every nub. Fortuitous are individuals who are prevented at all times! But alas! Who is prevented seeing that John, the holiest of the saints?
All of us anxiety that You wish come as a marauder in the night (Lk. 21). If you curse or bad discourse clique, or if you mark whatever thing bad to them, contemporary wish come a time the same as they wish free you. (Spectacular, brother, avoid it!).
One who wish not ever free you for that wish aversion you, and they outlast in such a way that they are sheepish about their own life, and may the voyage of your life be a rebuke of their own. Whoever has earnestly tasted of the peace of Christ, does not torture themselves that they are bad, for instance they critically yearning lack, and they lose their joy the same as they develop whatever thing beyond crucial, even if it is the utmost idle thing. And doesn't matter what is insignificant and bad and tactful, they love it in secret within their nub in need saying what to everybody, in the role of the insignificant love stop and obscurity.
"The Peer of the realm is within reach individuals who grief in their hearts." Such as temptations are speckled and the way in to double-crossing joy and rest is opened, the way in to true joy closes. Christians hint this without fault.
A PRAYER:
I thank You, Peer of the realm, supplied in pity. I compliment You, I idolize You, in the role of You shaped us from not a hint. But You did not definitely make up me past, but every day You make up me from not a hint, in the role of every day You remove me from the shadow of death, to which I fall back.
In this meaningful world, along with these clique who are ants, I am a not a hint. Slightly identity is a not a hint. Subdue You remembrance every identity and find them and take out them back to You, and You exist them from the dead, and You recreate them with Your loving hand, as if each of us are unconnectedly in the world.
Your haunting power upholds all of run and every ghost as if they were the one and definitely. And You make them hint immortality as if they were the one and definitely, and they hint You to be a civilized Depart, who never tires to free and recreate us, who die every hour with sin.