{"id":10380,"date":"2021-10-10T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2021-10-02T21:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T01:05:47","slug":"metropolitan-sotirios-on-entrusting-ourselves-to-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10380","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Sotirios on Entrusting Ourselves to God\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are God\u2019s creatures, and even when humanity turned against their Creator, it was the Son of our God again who, as the illumined St. Paul repeats, brought us back with the price of His own Precious Blood (see 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 and 7:23).\u00a0\u00a0 Just because we belong to God, this does not mean that God forces us to be close to Him.\u00a0\u00a0 He wants our relationship with Him to be freely chosen, in that we make the decision (and act accordingly) to entrust \u201cour entire life\u201d to His omnipotent and caring hands.<\/p>\n

Sadly, it often happens that we forget God in the difficulties we have in our lives.\u00a0 Instead of turning to Him, humanity tries to face the adversity and sorrows of life alone.\u00a0\u00a0 This only increases suffering, and when resolution or relief cannot be found, they lose hope.\u00a0\u00a0 For those Christians who have put their faith and trust in the benevolent Lord, doing all that they can in every situation, a different result can be seen.\u00a0 By giving ourselves over completely to the divine will of God, we find peace instead of despair.\u00a0\u00a0 Our All Loving God will always be at our side!<\/p>\n

– Article in Pemptousia\u00a0 (Part 2)<\/p>\n

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**We are pleased to include writings from modern\u00a0\u00a0 Monasteries from time to time as well as our traditional Elders**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are God\u2019s creatures, and even when humanity turned against their Creator, it was the Son of our God again who, as the illumined St. Paul repeats, brought us back […]<\/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-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10382,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}