Воля Божия

The all-good Providence of God always arranges for us what is more useful for us. We, out of ignorance, often strive for the opposite. The killer has threatened to kill from time immemorial, but it is said that this hour has not yet come. The Lord alone knows whether he will be allowed to carry out this atrocity or not at all. The martyrs, surrendering to the will of God, some died as martyrs, while others, by the will of God, simply died in prison. Let us also surrender to the will of God and the all-good Providence of the Lord, so that good and saving things will be arranged for us, as the message and as it will be pleasing to Him (2, part 3, p. 34). Although the ancient people were very simple, their sayings were very wise and fundamental: “Don’t live as you want, but as God leads” (2, part 2, p. 141). However it pleases the Lord to decide your fate, by life 14 or by death, leave it all to His good Providence, but in any case, try to be in a peaceful dispensation against everything and against everyone. The Lord Judge is unhypocritical. In due time he will judge everything justly and reward everyone according to their deeds. And our main task, while we are in this life, is to endure everything, humble ourselves and ask the Lord for help and mercy, and it will be good (2, part 2, pp. 187–188). You write that your mother abbess told you: “You yourself don’t know why the Lord or God’s Providence is keeping you.” And there is no need to test, but to surrender in everything to the will of God: as the Lord wills, so let him arrange for us (2, part 3, p. 66). Don't worry too much about the arrangement of your destiny. Have only an unwavering desire for salvation and, leaving it to God, wait for His help until the time comes (2, part 1, p. 200). Children! submit to the will of God, and the enemy who troubles you will flee from you... Stand where you can, in the church and say the Jesus Prayer, like a publican, and the Lord will help you (2, part 3, p. 82). In one place they prayed for rain, and in another - that it would not rain, but it turned out that God wanted (1, part 2, p. 47). You write that good wishes are not always fulfilled. Know that the Lord does not fulfill all our good desires, but only those that serve our spiritual benefit. If, when raising children, we consider what teaching is appropriate for what age, all the more so does the Lord, the Seer of the Heart, know what is useful to us and at what time. There is a spiritual age, which is not calculated by age, and not by beards, and not by wrinkles; and just as sometimes 15-year-olds study science together with 8-year-old children, so in spiritual education this happens even more often (2, part 1, p. 176). You might be interested in: