{"id":5146,"date":"2018-07-28T12:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T16:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5146"},"modified":"2018-07-12T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:33:08","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-obeying-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5146","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Obeying God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"av0h2\" data-offset-key=\"7tlc6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7tlc6-0-0\">&#8220;We are truly free, in the spiritual sense, when we obey the will of God. But you see, whereas it is obedience that gives us true freedom, the evil one works the opposite way, presenting obedience as enslavement. Thus our youth, who have been poisoned by the spirit of rebellion, reject obedience. It is understandable that young people are tired of the various ideologies of the twentieth century. These systems have brought so much distortion to God\u2019s beautiful creation and filled His creatures with anxiety, separating them from Him, the only source of true joy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"av0h2\" data-offset-key=\"dtq9b-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dtq9b-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dtq9b-0-0\"> &#8211; &#8216;With Pain and Love&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"dtq9b-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5147\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/10465-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/10465-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/10465-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/10465.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are truly free, in the spiritual sense, when we obey the will of God. But you see, whereas it is obedience that gives us true freedom, the evil one [&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-5146","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\/5146","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=5146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5148,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions\/5148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}