Tuesday
1 Cor. 1:1-9; Matt. 13:24-30
The good seed was sown, but the enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. The tares in the Church are heroes and schisms, while in each of us they are bad thoughts, feelings, desires, and passions. A person accepts the good see of the word of God, decides to live in a holy way, and begins to live in this way. When himself weakens, then the enemy of salvation comes and places evil ideas in him which, if not rejected at the start, ripen into desires and dispositions, introducing their own spheres of activity, which mix themselves in with good works, feelings, and thoughts. In this way both remain together until the harvest. This harvest is repentance. The Lord sends the angels-a feeling of contrition and the fear of God-and they come in like a sickle, then burn up all the tares in the fire of painful self-condemnation. Pure wheat remains in the granary of the heart, to the joy of the man, the angels, and the Most Good God worshipped in Trinity.
-From St. Theophan the Recluse
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