Болезни

If a physical illness befalls you, do not be faint-hearted, but endure it with gratitude. The Apostle says: When I am weak, then I am strong (2 Cor. 12:10). Our body is filled with great sorrow and illness. Knowing the weakness of our nature, let us not be proud and uncompassionate, but with mutual compassion we will begin to propitiate the Creator, Who can make you sick, and then heal, bring you down to hell, and then raise you out of hell. If our body enjoys its health for a short time, we don’t know what the coming day has in store. The flesh is at enmity against a person in diseases of all kinds; his members are at enmity against him, because he himself is at war with his friends; the opposition of his own members to him teaches him to be of one mind and at peace with his neighbors. Look at the paralytic, whose members were weakened by sins. The Lord first forgave him the sins that brought upon him righteous punishment. His members became relaxed, because he abandoned those saving means by which the body is strengthened; His members relaxed because he had violated the Divine commandments. He dissolved the love of God - this strong connection of the spirit, and therefore the bodily strength that binds the members weakened. The union of his flesh was broken visibly, because his heart was divided invisibly; the bond of his members was broken, because his thoughts were divided.