Trust in your Creator and Savior alone; He knows all your spiritual and physical needs better than you do, and He cares for you. Those who do not trust in God face God's terrible judgment: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and sets his arm of flesh upon him; and his heart will depart from the Lord. But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and the Lord will be his hope. He will be like a tree planted by the waters, and will send out his root in the moisture; he will not be afraid when the heat comes, but his stem will be green; and when there is no rain he will not be afraid, nor will he cease to bear fruit ( Jer. 17:5, 7:8 ).
Those who place their hope in anything earthly can never be at peace. You place your hope in wealth, but you can always lose it. You place your hope in man, but he is fickle and mortal. You place your hope in your health and abilities, but physical illness deprives you of all of these. Our only true, firm, and undoubted hope is Jesus Christ , the Son of God, the Almighty, Eternal God. By His command, the heavenly angels guard us in all our ways. Our enemy constantly distracts us from our hope in God, but we, knowing his demonic cunning, must constantly repel his evil slander. As Saint Tikhon says, there can be no hope without patience. Where there is true hope, there is patience, and where there is patience, there is hope. Hope, like faith, is subject to many temptations. In a distressing situation, it is necessary to endure, so as not to seek deliverance from the misfortune in an unlawful manner, but to surrender ourselves to the will of God and await from Him mercy, either to help in patience or to deliver from the misfortune, as He Himself, our Savior, knows. There is no greater temptation to hope than when thoughts, rising up in the conscience, say: " There is no salvation for him in his God" ( Ps. 3:3 ). Because of this, a person is covered in the darkness of sorrow. In such a grave temptation, what is most needed is patience, silence, and sighing from the depths of the heart, until this severe storm passes or is relieved. Here one must hope beyond hope and trust beyond hope, as the holy Apostle writes about Abraham: " Beyond hope, to the right of hope " ( Rom. 4:18 ). The holy Apostle exhorts to this struggle and patient hope. The Prophet King: Be patient, be strong in the Lord, and let your heart be strong, and be patient with the Lord ( Psalm 27:14 ). And by God's mercy he gives hope: the patience of the poor will not perish forever ( Psalm 9:19 ) . And he sets himself as an example: I patiently endured; the Lord listened to me and heard my prayer ( Psalm 40: 2 ). At the same time, we must also heed the words of the psalmist: Trust in the Lord and do good ( Psalm 37:3 ). This word shows us that he who trusts in God must do good, follow God's will, and not his own. In vain does he hope in God who resists Him with his deeds; in vain does he expect mercy from God who continually irritates Him with an unrepentant disposition, who stretches out his hands and lifts his eyes to God, but turns his heart away from Him and turns to mammon, silver, impurity, and other sinful passions. God is the deliverer of those who love Him, not of those who resist Him. The Lord gives strength to his people ( Psalm 29:11 ). He will fulfill the will of those who fear Him, and He will hear their prayer and save them ( Psalm 145:19).). Those who do not fear God who fearlessly violate His law will not fulfill their will, because they do not do His will, and He will not hear their prayers, because they themselves do not want to listen to Him and repent. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to destroy the memory of them from the earth ( Ps. 34:17 ). The Lord listens to those who honor and worship the Creator, not their passions—not gold and silver, God's creation—and He cools them in their temptations, comforts them, and gladdens them with His grace. He also listens to sinners who repent and cease to sin. A sinner remains a sinner as long as he lives fearlessly and does not cease to sin, and when he repents and abandons sin, by God's grace he is joined to the ranks of the righteous. Such sinners should not put aside their hope, but without doubt expect the mercy of God through Christ Jesus, who came into the world to save sinners.
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