Болезнь

Man is like grass, and how much does it take to mow him down? One minute can decisively destroy his health and plunge his body either into the grave or onto the bed of a painful and prolonged illness. The Gospel teaches us that no sorrow can befall us without the will of God, it teaches us to thank God for all the sorrows that come to us at His behest. From your sick bed, bring thanks to God, just as Job, covered in stinking scabs, brought it from a heap of pus. Thanks to gratitude the severity of illness is dulled! Thanksgiving brings spiritual comfort to the sick! A heart instructed and delighted by thanksgiving is renewed by the power of living faith. The mind, suddenly illuminated by the light of faith, begins to contemplate the wondrous Providence of God, vigilantly vigilant over all creation. Such contemplation leads to spiritual delight, the soul begins to abundantly thank, glorify God, begins to praise His holy providence, and surrender itself to His holy will. The sickbed is often a place of knowledge of God and self-knowledge. The suffering of the body is often the cause of spiritual pleasures, and the bed of illness is watered with tears of repentance and tears of joy in God. During illness, you first need to force yourself to thank God, and when the soul tastes the sweetness and peace brought by thanksgiving, it itself hurries to it, as if to a refuge. She hurries there from the heavy waves of murmur, cowardice, and sadness. “Through much tribulation we must enter the Kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22). Whomever the Lord loves, he sends sorrows, and they mortify the heart of God’s chosen one towards the world, accustoming him to hover near God. In all sorrows, including illness, the following medicines bring spiritual benefit and joy: devotion to the will of God, thanksgiving to God, reproaching oneself and recognizing oneself as worthy of God’s punishment, remembering that all saints walked the path of earthly life in constant and fierce suffering, that sorrow is the cup of Christ. One who does not partake of this cup is not able to inherit eternal bliss. You might be interested in: