How, then, can He not love me? - Ascetic Philotimo

"Philotimo is the reverent distillation of goodness, the love shown by humble people, from which every trace of self has been filtered out. Their hearts are full of gratitude towards God and their fellow men; and out of spiritual sensitivity, they try to repay the slightest good others do for them."

-St. Paisios the Athonite

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The righteous Christian does not practice good acts for his own benefit, i.e. in order to be rewarded or to avoid hell and gain paradise, but rather because he prefers good to evil. Everything else is a natural consequence of the good that fills our soul without having asked for it. This way, good has dignity; otherwise, it originates from the cheap attitude of "give and take." -Elder Paisios .

How, then, can He not love me?

Written by philotimo in Contemplations on 21 July 2020 à 14:30

God is the One Who created me, Who formed and fashioned me from the dust of the earth. He knew me and loved me even before I was born. He knows, He remembers me from the time that I was just a layer of dust. He has not forgotten that, before he breathed into me the spirit of life (cf. Gen 2:7), I was a clod of earth, a patch of mud, a lump of clay scooped from the ground that sat awkwardly on His potter’s wheel. He was the one Who shaped and molded me in the womb of His hands, it was He Who designed all the details of my body. How, then, can He not love me?

-Geronda Aimilianos of Simonopetra, Psalms and the Life of Faith.
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