There
are many forces at work which will try to lead us astray from living a
God-pleasing life. It is important to continually pay more attention to
the inner nudging of our conscience than to external things. This is not
to say we should ignore or separate from external events, as this is
also a reality of our life. But first and with the highest priority is
giving our attention to our inner life directed toward our relationship
with God.
Saint Theophan reminds us that this takes courage.
Provide yourself with only one thing, strong encourage: no matter what happens, stay with what you have begun… no matter how life goes, whatever successes and failures there are, you should give all of this over to God’s will.When we examine the lives of saints we see that they have been led, often through great difficulties, with God’s love. We see that when they devote themselves to perfecting their way of life through God, God leads them to perfection in differing ways.
Provide yourself with only one thing, strong encourage: no matter what happens, stay with what you have begun… no matter how life goes, whatever successes and failures there are, you should give all of this over to God’s will.When we examine the lives of saints we see that they have been led, often through great difficulties, with God’s love. We see that when they devote themselves to perfecting their way of life through God, God leads them to perfection in differing ways.