FIVE PHRASES OF THE APOSTLE JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN, OPENING THE EYES OF THE BLIND, THE EARS OF THE DEAF, HEALING THE SICK

The Metropolitan Anthony (Packanich) told about the meaning of the main words of the favorite Christ’s apostle on the feast of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian.

We’re all sick because we don’t have perfect love in our hearts. But our illness can be healed by the grace of God. Life is given to us to heal from the sickness of loveless and to learn, in the limits of our own possibilities, the power of the true love approaching the soul to eternity.

«We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love» (1 John 4:16-18).

These 5 phrases can heal anybody who accede them.

«We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us.»

There’s nothing stronger than the Divine love. The Divine love is the healing power which transforms, reanimates and saves. It consists of all evangelical attributes, of all Divine power of Christ.

It’s the alpha and omega of our life. We came into being due to it, and we’ll go away to the eternity faded with its unlimited stream. Molding in ourselves some or other of attributes, improving ourself in the righteousness, we grow the love in our heart. The bigger our love is, the clearer we’ll be inosculated with the Divine stream.

«God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him»

These words mean that person is not the master of himself anymore, but God abides in him.

God fills His vessel by Himself, charges it with his Holy Spirit — and human merge into one with God, being inseparable by neither death, nor time.

And then something wonderful happens: the one who abides in God starts seeing and feeling in the God’s way. He doesn’t judge, lie, backbite anymore. He’s not joyful for falsehood, but he’s joyful for truth and clearness. He has mercy, and he sympathizes.

The one, who abides in God, bears cross, and not by himself, falling under its weight, but with the God’s support. God strengthens on each step and gives necessary power.

«By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.»

By indwelling in the face of God, measuring all thoughts with Him, we learn step-by-step to act by love, to act according to His will. And this is the huge freedom which gives us the happiness, and leads to the blessedness. We don’t have to worry about what others think about us, how they rate our actions: criticize or approve. The main thing is that we’re honest with God, we’re performers of kindness and beauty together with Him, and it’s enough for us that He knows our intentions, sees our thoughts, hears our prayers. The reaction of others is not important for us.

«There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment»

God, Who is the love, is frightful for those who stray away from Him.

The one who strains after God is not afraid of any griefs and sicknesses. He becomes healed by his faith: all wounds, both physical and spiritual, get healed like the anointing oil of His care and warmth, and they’re unlimited. We just do not use the Divine love. We ignore it, hoping on ourselves. We do not let Him act in our life, we do not give joy with our soul, remove His powerful, comforting hand. Life without God is suffering.

«And the one who fears is not perfected in love.»

The one who has the perfect love never falls. Any fall in God is a spiritual rising. Only those who lack faith fall, those who didn’t reach His love. Love knows no fear and no limit.

 

Recorded by Natalia Goroshkova

Опубликовано: Fri, 21/05/2021 - 09:00

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