When
you believe in Christ, when you are a member of the Church, when your
concern is the Kingdom of God, when you long for it and fight the good fight,
but, in the end, you keep something of yourself which you do not surrender to
Christ, you will be left outside the Kingdom of God. And this is such a pity.
It’s not enough for someone to simply
say: “I have found Christ and I believe in Christ”. If you are not in the
Church, if you do not find Christ through the Church, you have not found the
true Christ.
The moment you want to do something
right, a different kind of force comes out of you driving you to do something
else, unwanted by you. And you do what’s wrong. This is why man must not trust
how he feels or thinks. Obedience makes us wise because we overcome our strong
negative feelings, our personal weaknesses, our peculiarities and
imperfections.
Archimandrite Symeon Kragiopoulos (†)
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