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View this post on Instagram If we are to cultivate the soil of our hearts we will first need a plough, and our plough must be the Cross of Christ. This will lead us into obedience to His word and we will take up our own cross. No one can carry the Cross of Christ. The pain and the crushing ignominy contained in it are beyond describing. It would grind our whole being to dust for it bears within itself the whole tragedy of man since the day of his fall from Paradise until the end of ages. It bears the whole cosmic weight of Adam's disobedience. We bear our small personal cross in obedience to Christ's commandment. This cross is the pain and sacrifice involved in freeing the heart from passionate attachments and secret deceits, that it may run freely after its beloved God and call upon Him. It will have room for nothing but a yearning for God by which to invoke His Name. The one desire of the heart is to be one with Him Who joined Himself to our nature, bringing into it all His divine virtues so that we might become 'partakers if the divine nature.' Thus, by taking up our small cross, we inherit the life hidden in His great Cross. – Archimandrite Zacharias #orthodox #orthodoxy #orthodoxchurch #christian #wisdomofthefathers #archimandritezacharias #carryyourcross #cross #sacrifice A post shared by Wisdom of the Fathers (@wisdomofthefathers) on Jul 19, 2016 at 5:59pm PDT
If we are to cultivate the soil of our hearts we will first need a plough, and our plough must be the Cross of Christ. This will lead us into obedience to His word and we will take up our own cross. No one can carry the Cross of Christ. The pain and the crushing ignominy contained in it are beyond describing. It would grind our whole being to dust for it bears within itself the whole tragedy of man since the day of his fall from Paradise until the end of ages. It bears the whole cosmic weight of Adam's disobedience. We bear our small personal cross in obedience to Christ's commandment. This cross is the pain and sacrifice involved in freeing the heart from passionate attachments and secret deceits, that it may run freely after its beloved God and call upon Him. It will have room for nothing but a yearning for God by which to invoke His Name. The one desire of the heart is to be one with Him Who joined Himself to our nature, bringing into it all His divine virtues so that we might become 'partakers if the divine nature.' Thus, by taking up our small cross, we inherit the life hidden in His great Cross. – Archimandrite Zacharias #orthodox #orthodoxy #orthodoxchurch #christian #wisdomofthefathers #archimandritezacharias #carryyourcross #cross #sacrifice
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