We are all going to leave this world – young and old, rich and poor, the king and the soldier. Regardless of the manner in w which one looks after his house, or his monastery, regardless of how brilliantly he polishes it, he will still depart this life. Our Christ will ask from us what we did for Him and how we labored for Him. These are questions God will ask of us. This is why we need to struggle spiritually.
When we ceaselessly pursue the prayer, God will enrich us. Only the prayer cleanses the heart. Because we are full of passions, we should sympathize with one another and be careful of our tongue.
“The tongue has not bones but it crushes bones.”
If we use it for God, it will be all honey and sweetness. If we say words against each other, it will be all bitterness. The person who is obedient and says the prayer will receive abundant grace and will experience may things…
For this reason let us be careful. Let us help ourselves by using the prayer rope and asking for the Light of God to come and illumine our inner being.
Let us have faith in our Christ, in our Panagia, and in the saints. We should love the Panagia fervently so that she will give us the joy of her Son. May the joy of Christ grow in our souls… my little soul, you gain nothing if you do not “love your God with all your mind, with all your strength and your neighbor as yourself.” We must learn not to judge that ye be not judged. If we keep these two commandments, we will go all together to Christ; we will go to Paradise with great ease. This is what the Fathers guarded so closely; they prayer that this Gospel message would be imprinted on their souls so that they could live it. We live our lives carelessly. The good years pass, the good days pass our good minutes slip by – even those slip between our fingers.
Let us be very careful. Be very careful of conversations, anger, harsh words, idle talk and grumbling, because all of these harm our soul. May your nous be Heaven and your heart the Throne of God, and your mouth a Church… let us struggle to have humility in our soul. Humility. Whoever humbles himself and becomes “dust and ashes”, is the one who will receive the majesty of God. He will receive the gifts of the All-Holy Spirit in his soul. Through humilty, our Christ was crucified. Everything was achieved through humility. Our Christ wants fervent love and immense faith. When we love Him, He will also love us. He will have compassion for us, have mercy on us and save us.
… What spiritual unity takes place when one communicates with another! This is how the grace of God is transmitted. One person has grace and he gives it to another. What grandeur! The spiritual person has so much joy at the moment he communicates with another that he can’t hold back; whatever he has, he transmits to the other. Does he have divine flame, heavenly consolation, fire, fragrance? Whatever he has, he will give. These are gifts from God.
Whoever pursues the prayer as if it were gold and makes use of every minute is able to leap over all obstacles, accepting and enduring everything. Then God, and the Panagia protect this person. He will be careful not to judge, not to be disobedient, or do things without a blessing Humility is needed. When one looks to himself, he will see everything around him with a good eye. When a person has God within his soul, he does not speak ill of anyone, and when he sees someone who is suffering, he feels pain, weeps with him and entreats God to be merciful to him.
When a person has God in His soul and separates the good from the bad, removing what is bad from the soul, then he thinks that there are flowers everywhere. He says,” there must be violets and hyacinths here. Are there Lillie’s nearby? Oh what frangrant basil.”
… God does not want cleverness. He wants only for you to worship Him and keep Him noetically close by you. God gives spiritual intelligence and discretion to the person who is noetically close to Him.
“When we truly love Christ, we will cling to His neck; we will embrace His feet. If there is something troubling our soul, and as human beings we fall we should say, “Help me my Christ; strengthen me; enlighten me; bestow more faith upon me; grant me prudence; grant me obedience.” The soul will seek after these things because it desires salvation.”
♥️ Words of the Heart ♥️
Through prayer we will heal our brother’s wound and overcome every difficult situation. When a person understands that he is a zero, he neither gets angry, nor speaks unkindly, nor argues, but instead he prays for others.
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