Monday (Fifth Week of Lent)
Is. 37:33-38:6; Gen 13:12-18; Prov. 14:27-15:4
The eyes of the Lord behold both the evil and the good in every place (Prov. 15:3). Oh, if only rational creatures would always keep this in mind! Then not only would they not dare to commit excesses openly and to give themselves over to dissoluteness of the flesh, but neither would they inwardly, in their thoughts and in the movements of their heart, allow anything unpleasing to God. They would then stand like soldiers at the front before the king, with all attention and strictness toward themselves, that they not be found ignorant of their orders, nor be subject to the king's wrath and punishment. The orders given to rational creatures are the commandments of God, which determine the proper form of their thoughts, and how their feelings and dispositions ought to be.
-From St. Theophan the Recluse
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