Monday (Sixth Week of Lent)
Is. 48:17-49:4; Gen. 27:1-41; Prov. 19: 16-25
Thus says the Lord: I am thy God, I have shown thee how thou shouldest find the way wherein thou shouldest walk.And if thou hadst hearkened to My commandments, then would thy peace have been like a river, and thy righteousness as a wave of the sea. Thy seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy belly as the dust of the ground: neither now shalt thou by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall thy name perish before Me. Under what condition should all this come to pass? Go forth of Babylon (Is. 48:17-20).
Babylon is an image of all-around sinfulness. Abandon sin and turn to the Lord with all your heart. He will not remember your transgressions, and will consign of all your unrighteousness to oblivion. You will enter again into His mercy-and then you need only to walk the way which He will teach you, and your inner peace will be like river; the good thoughts of your heart, like the sand; and the fruits of your good works, like the dust of the ground.
-From St. Theophan the Recluse
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