Воля Божия

Those who have reached manhood for Christ receive unceasing prayer, which they perform in the secret of the spiritual cage in every place and at every time. A Christian then receives unceasing prayer when his will and the activity dependent on the will are absorbed in understanding, desire and fulfillment of the will of God. This establishes living faith, evangelical simplicity, and the peace of God, alien to any disturbance, in the heart. We are obliged to direct all our will to God. Just as we care to fulfill the desires of our loved ones and for this we try to find out their desires and study their inclinations, so we must do the same with respect to God. We must become thoroughly and thoroughly familiar with the will of God. The will of God is revealed to us in the Law of God, which is the Gospel. “Blessed is the man,” says the prophet, “who did not go to the meeting of the wicked, and did not stand in the way of sinners, and did not sit in the company of destroyers, but in the law of the Lord” - “his will and his law he will learn day and night” (Ps. 1: 1-2). “Do not be conformed to this world,” the apostle bequeaths, “but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, acceptable and perfect will of God” (Rom. 12:2). Having learned the will of God, we must fulfill it, because love requires this. She is not content with studying the will of her loved ones: she longs to fulfill it. It devotes itself to study for execution; having studied it, it devotes itself to execution. Studying and doing the will of God is recognized by God Himself as a sure sign of love for God. “Whoever has My commandments, said the Savior, and keeps them, he loves Me... He who loves Me will keep My word... He who does not love Me does not keep My words” (John 14:21, 23, 24). What can I say as a consolation to anyone who understands that he walks on the waves of the sea with both his outer life and the life of his spirit? Let's say that he walks according to the command of his God. According to this command, Saint Peter walked to edify us and did not drown until that time, until which he firmly believed that he was acting according to the command of God. Let us also believe that God has called us from insignificance into existence, that He has given and destined for us a field of earthly life, commanding us to do His will in this field and promising to vigilantly watch over His providence over His faithful servants. Let us believe that we, His creatures, are completely in His will, that without the wave of this almighty and all-holy will nothing happens to us. Guided by this thought, we will freely and boldly make our procession across the sea. “Are not two small birds,” said the Lord to His disciples, “sold for an assarium? And not one of them will fall to the ground without the will of your Father; Even the hairs on your head are all numbered; Do not be afraid: you are better than many small birds (Matthew 10:29-31). » The complete union of the human will with the will of God is a state of perfection that only a rational creation of God can achieve. Angels have this perfection. Our Savior is pleased that we, weak and unfortunate people, taken from the earth, wandering and restless on earth for the shortest possible time, and after it has passed, descending into the earth, acquire what the holiest heavenly spirits have. He commands us to seek a perfection that is still incomprehensible to us. He who has felt the Kingdom of God within himself learns not to be satisfied with this, he learns not to indulge in carelessness and inaction, and learns to strive for the most abundant development of the Divine dominion within himself. May the will of God operate exclusively in the entire being of man, in all its component parts: in spirit, soul and body, uniting with itself and in itself the will of these parts separated by the fall! Only by the will of God can the human will, poisoned by sin, be healed, only in the will of God and through it the wishes of the constituent parts of man, which have taken different directions opposite to each other 38, can move from disagreement to agreement, unite into one desire; Only the human will, animated by the will of God, can be torn away from the earth and ascend to heaven. “The flesh has its own will” (i.e., its own desire), said St. Mark the Ascetic, referring to the Apostle (Eph. 2:3). Word 4. You might be interested in: