THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE
By St. John Maximovitch.
Many people believe that to live according to the
faith and to fulfill the will of God is very difficult. Actually—it’s very
easy. One needs only attend to details, to trifles, and try to avoid evil in
the slightest and most trivial things. This is the simplest and surest way to
enter the world of the spirit and draw near to God. A man often thinks that the
Creator demands great things of him, that the Gospel insists on complete self-
sacrifice, the abolition of one’s personhood, etc., as a condition of faith. A
man is so frightened by this that he begins to be afraid of becoming acquainted
with God, of drawing near to God, and hides himself from God, not even wishing
to look into God’s Word. “If I can’t do anything important for God, then I’d
just better stay away from things spiritual, stop thinking about eternity, and
live ‘in a normal way’.”
