the life of the world we have injustice and suffering in the personal life of each
person and we also have suffering and injustice in the
world in the multitudes of people let's first take how
we deal with suffering and sacrifice what does an orthodox christian do in
his personal life so we said before that in principle the life of
christ is the model of the life of the christian man the
christian must imitate the life of Christ and the life of Christ goes through
the cross so the Christian will also go through the cross if he wants to
go to the kingdom of God to go to the kingdom of God you go through the
cross from the cross you will go to the resurrection and the resurrection will put you in the kingdom
of God, so we have the Christian in his life, says
the gospel, says Christ, in this world you will have tribulation, says the
saint Isaac the hero, a very important one, says that the spirit of
God wants the spirit, that is, God wants Christians to have
sorrow and calamities in this life
. christ i am the way and since
he is the way his way is through the cross he goes to the resurrection and to the
kingdom of god so all of us will pass if we want to go to
his kingdom of God and if we want to be with God's people we will
all go through suffering through a cross and to each person God gives
his own cross or will give him an illness or will give him a great
mental or physical sorrow or will give him a difficult one a difficult husband or he will
give him his children to his children a difficulty or in his work a difficulty
with a difficulty after all he will give him a cross this cross now the
Christian must endure him pick him up so he doesn't throw him away
and you see that those who divorce I gave an example now what is happening in the lives of
Christians today when many many couples divorce because they don't pick up
each other's cross you have a difficult wife you have a difficult husband
instead of picking up your cross the cross you separate him from him, while Christ wants you to be
patient with him, to bear the difficulty of his own, to help him
overcome his own difficulty if you do so, patience for him to sanctify and
let him sanctify and you sanctify and he doesn't want the separation
, that's why many people tell me that Christ allows divorce, he said it himself,
he allowed it, then in the old testament, Moses says because of our hard hearts,
that is, in essence, Christ he doesn't want it because he wants
man to bear with each other in marriage and now we have many
children many sick people who have various diseases and they endure
they have physical physical they don't have health they have a big big
cross in their life the sick the quadriplegic the various in the various
situations this suffering that God allows in the Christian's life
in essence what does this suffering purify him with patience and
prayer that the sick person must have on this cross that Christ has given him
is to help him to be cleansed of his passions and to
prepare him for the next life so if he accepts it as a Eucharist, i.e. without
touching it and says, God has allowed this for me to be blessed and takes it
like a blessing and lifts it up with thanksgiving, this is the best
position for and it passes painlessly, it suffers but it passes as
painlessly as possible this cross so then and now you see that because
we must have a cross many ascetics who do not
have a cross God has not given them a cross they invent a cross another goes to a
pillar another goes to a cave another goes to the desert they invent a difficult life
another is given with ropes another with chains why do they do this they invent
a cross to have sorrow out of love for Christ they do it so the one who
loves Christ does not throw away his cross and even if he hasn't invented
it is awesome so why the through suffering and sacrifice for the
love of god and the love of christ who was crucified without fault and
took upon himself the sins of the whole world his human nature bore the
sins of the whole world thus and endured he came down to the earth ephah to the end
humiliation went all the way to hell to save the living and the departed
therefore and for this thing and the love of Christ who did all this for the
world for man let each one of us take up
his cross with patience and not grumble so this is the meaning of suffering,
that is to say, it is a rescue work which brings us leads us
leads us ultimately to the peace of Christ and the kingdom of God when
someone does it when he accepts this cross that he has for the love of god
and the love of christ this slowly brings health to his soul because
he does it with thanksgiving so when he sees it positively that is out of love for christ and
is patient he will not be depressed
if he's carrying a heavy load i.e. he starts
complaining and says why should I suffer this and why this will
lead him to depression
THE GREAT WAGER: A Spiritual Warning from Fotis Kontoglou. A couple of days ago, I was reading an old book by Fotis Kontoglou, the great G...
