{"id":6601,"date":"2019-05-22T12:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2019-05-04T21:20:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T01:20:25","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-complete-trust-in-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6601","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Porphyrios on Complete Trust in God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;the grace of God is to be found where there is true humility, divine humility, perfect trust in God, total dependence on Him. It is a priceless thing to be led by God and to have no will of your own. The slave has no will of his own. He does his master\u2019s will. The faithful servant of God does the same. Become His slave, and in God you will find freedom. This is true freedom \u2014 to burn for God. This is everything. We have said this time and again. If you are defeated by God, you are enslaved to Him and you live in the freedom enjoyed by the children of God. For by whomsoever a person is defeated, by the same he is led in bondage. This also happens, however, in the case of the monk\u00a0\u00a0 who lives in total obedience to his elder&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6602\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fol_0300-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fol_0300-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fol_0300-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/fol_0300.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;the grace of God is to be found where there is true humility, divine humility, perfect trust in God, total dependence on Him. It is a priceless thing to be [&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-6601","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\/6601","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=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6603,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}