{"id":5838,"date":"2018-12-07T12:39:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2018-12-02T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T22:40:07","slug":"elder-ephraim-of-arizona-on-longsuffering-in-theosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5838","title":{"rendered":"Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Longsuffering in Theosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"38jl3\" data-offset-key=\"cqdd3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cqdd3-0-0\">\u201cThe struggle is not small; it does not last for only one day, but until our last breath. Therefore, let us arm ourselves with the sweetest name of our Jesus, so that the devil finds no room in our heart. But to acquire the memory of our Jesus, much diligence, forcefulness, faith, hope, perseverance, patience, and time are needed. Place your hope in our Christ and do not fear the threats of the demons, but establish yourself beside Him and say, \u201cBy my God shall I leap over a wall;\u201d that is, I shall pass over the barriers of demonic temptations with the power of my God. Try to make a good start, for then you will have an excellent end. How you begin is how you will continue to walk. Do not disregard your small imperfections and say, \u201cThis is nothing.\u201d No. Small things will become large and will give birth to other evils as well. He who does not pay attention to small vices will fall into great ones.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"38jl3\" data-offset-key=\"144jt-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"144jt-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"144jt-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018Counsels from the Holy Mountain\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"144jt-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5839\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/0494-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/0494-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/0494.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe struggle is not small; it does not last for only one day, but until our last breath. Therefore, let us arm ourselves with the sweetest name of our Jesus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}