Беседа 26. Того же блаженного мар Исаака. О том, что именно Бог попускает тяжким испытаниям находить на нас и что Сам милосердный Господь допускает эти периоды уныния, когда мы скорбим и страдаем. 997

1. If the rest and consolation prepared for us, which God is destined to constantly come to us, does not poison our conscience 998 and does not interfere with them, we will invariably experience rest and pleasure all our days. But in order for our insane conscience, which is constantly in need of a scourge, to be corrected, we are prepared at all times for grief instead of rest and punishment instead of help. 2. Therefore, accuse your conscience of callousness, 999 whenever you are upset by a change in the direction of 1000 suffering or despondency. For it is she who goes away and constantly seizes on trials and brings them upon you. 3. or because of crazy opinions about God, 1001 or because of man’s conceit, 1002 or because you accuse your neighbor of something and threaten him, or because you expect some kind of respect from people, as if they owe it to you! 4. All this is completely healed and corrected by the medicine of humility. 5. If humility were inherent in your conscience, 1003 there would be no room left for all these to linger there. 6. Truly, no bad deed has such a bad retribution as in the case of an insane mind, which does not want to condemn or blame itself, nor shy away from being shamefully upset by various circumstances that happen, like one who came to the idea that God does not exist for him, whereas it is from God that all this comes from. 7. Draw a little closer to God in your trials through your conscience, O man! Do you realize on whom you are pouring out your anger? 1004 You would immediately calm down if you wisely remembered His hidden Providence. 1005 We did not translate the title literally due to the complexity of the syntax. Lit. “accuse your conscience as callous ((atora)." Lit. "because of the crazy opinions it has about God." Var. "because of a person's opinion of himself." Lit. “wandered freely in your conscience.” Lit. “Against whom are you thundering, do you realize?” Lit. “about the hiddenness of His Providence.” You might be interested in: