Do you love God for His blessings and miracles, or for Himself?
"Do you have a superficial relationship with God or an inner and deep spiritual
relationship with Him?"
You may be called by God to start a new life with Him, and afterwards you don't abide, you go away from His path and peace, why?
Our beloved Pope Shenouda III elaborates in the reasons in this sermon from his treasures, listen to it with English subtitles for non Arabic speakers.
Here are some of what he included:
"To abide in His love, not only in spiritual rituals. To abide in His love.
You should abide in His warmth, abide in His knowledge, abide in faith, abide in His strength. You should be consistent, not reverting back and forth every day."
"The environment may stumble the man, it may not give him the spiritual stability,
nor the continuity and the abidance in God.
To abide in God, you have to maintain a strong spiritual environment, and to
avoid the bad influences that may stumble you."
"To abide in God, stay away from the appearances. That is the outwardly routine
of worship, yet the inner heart is not ignited with God’s love. He prays, he fasts,
he confesses, he takes communion, he comes to church, but God’s love doesn’t
exist in his heart."
"As some people aim only to fulfill the commandments out of fear from God, and
to please Him, but not out of love to God. They are still living in fear, in the
slavery of the Law, they only focus to fulfill the commandments without loving
God.
The Lord says; “My son, give me your heart.”
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