Monday
Acts 12:12-17; John 8:42-51
What means, do you think, did the Lord use to explain to the Jews the reason for their not believing in Him? The means He used was to tell them the truth. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe Me not (John 8:45). The lie, as it is said, turned into their flesh and blood, and made them incapable of receiving the truth. Why do people not believe today? For the same reason-the Lord speaks the truth, and therefore they do not believe. But how can this be? Are they not all learned, and do they not talk only about the truth? They have many words, but no works. The weaving of their schemes is like the spinning of a spider's web, but they do not notice the flimsiness of it. The principles of their systems are groundless, and their conclusions cannot be proved, but they are satisfied with them nevertheless. There is now such a demand for hypotheses that it seems that they alone make up the entire content of their minds, and this is reputed to be the sphere of immutable truth. So their mind has gone rotten, and its taste has been ruined! How can it contain the truth? And so they do not believe the Lord, Who speaks only the truth.
-From St. Theophan the Recluse
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