Самоукорение

Reproach yourself. It's easy to reproach yourself, but some people don't want to. It is more difficult to bear reproach from a brother, but it is not difficult to reproach yourself. In addition, if we reproach ourselves and do not fight passions, then such self-reproach will not bring any benefit. If we reproach ourselves by falling into sins unwittingly, then such self-reproach is legal. In the fight against passions, even if we are overcome by them, but we reproach ourselves, repent, humble ourselves and continue to fight, we constantly move forward. We have only one thing left: humility. The time of harsh exploits must have passed irrevocably... Even for a minute, even for half a minute, you must definitely reproach yourself. Our job is to reproach ourselves, at least for a very short time, and leave the rest to God... And there were holy fathers whose whole life was continuous self-reproach... But we are far from that. When we reproach ourselves, we are filled with strength, we become stronger spiritually. This is the law of spiritual life. Just as in our physical life we ​​reinforce our strength with food, so in our spiritual life our spiritual strength is strengthened by self-reproach. You just took food into your stomach, but you don’t know how food is digested into nutritious juices, how your body feeds on them. It’s the same in spiritual life: we feed on self-reproach, which, according to the teachings of the holy fathers, is an invisible ascent, but why and how, we don’t know. This is the law of spiritual life. When we feed on the spiritual, we become stronger and stronger spiritually. What is self-reproach? Humility. What is humility? This is the robe of the Divine, according to the word of the Climacus... We go and touch this robe when we reproach ourselves... You might be interested in: