Tag: judgments
The struggle
I suppose one of my greatest struggles is to free myself from what others think or feel about me. This has been something that I have worked with from childhood and am not sure actually how much progress I have made in this matter. Like most people, I would like to be understood, my intentions… Read More ›
The struggle
I suppose one of my greatest struggles is to free myself from what others think or feel about me. This has been something that I have worked with from childhood and am not sure actually how much progress I have made in this matter. Like most people, I would like to be understood, my intentions… Read More ›
There is no injustice in God
Why does God make certain men sheep and not others, since there is no partiality in him? This is the question which certain people pose with more curiosity than mental capacity, and the blessed Apostle answers, Who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Does the clay pot say to its maker: Why… Read More ›
Loss of soul: What we love the most, truly desire; is where our hearts are
A man came up to one day and asked me this question: “What does it mean to lose your soul?” I don’t like questions like this, when they are asked, there is more often than not, some kind of underlying agenda, which over the years I have tried to avoid. I really can’t help others… Read More ›
Splinter
The splinter in the other, the log in my own eye, what does that mean? Also, will we be judged in the same manner that we judge? Are these sayings related, if so what do they indicate? I don’t think they were stated to engender fear, no, but insight yes, about the nature of reality…. Read More ›
And justice looked down from heaven
And justice looked down from heaven. That the Saviour should have mercy on his people was indeed an act of justice. See what the Scripture says: O how just are God’s judgments and how unsearchable his ways! On the one hand truth, that is, a saviour, has grown up from the earth, and on the… Read More ›
The Judgements of God
Abba Antony, failing to understand the judgments of God, asked, “Lord, why is it that some die young, and others live to a ripe old age, and why are some incompetent while others abound in all manner of skills, and why are some people unjustly rich while others live in the extremes of poverty?” And… Read More ›