“Have mercy and you will be shown mercy! (Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy!). Love and you will be loved! You need to abolish your hell, because externally – the Kingdom of God! “Come out, faithful (from your own hell) to the resurrection” through mercy and humility! Lord, have mercy on the brother (sister) who sins (suffers, is tormented), and by their prayers save and have mercy on me, a sinner (I am worse than everyone, the greatest sinner)! This is the shortest path to the Kingdom of God! (Mercy without humility nurtures pride – since I show mercy, I am greater than the one I am merciful to (recall the Pharisee (from the parable of the publican and the Pharisee), who gave alms and nurtured his downfall with this virtue – diabolical pride; he judged and despised people: tax collectors, prostitutes, murderers…). Therefore, there is no virtue without humility! Humility is the essence of the goodness of every deed, every virtue! (Without humility, there is no good, you cannot do anything good). For the essence of all deeds is to acquire humility! Therefore, you must always humble yourself before your neighbor, humble yourself (your proud thoughts), consider yourself lower than your neighbor, worse, the last! Good deeds without humility nurture pride, and if a person does not follow the path of Truth, Orthodoxy, they will become a holy Satan – they will have all the virtues, but they will be sealed not with humility, but with pride! Therefore, I show mercy to everyone and simultaneously humble myself before everyone! Therefore: Lord, have mercy on the brother (sinner: maniac, terrorist, pedophile, fornicator, cynic…) and (most importantly – humble yourself before this sinner) by his prayers (because he is better than me, closer to God than I am, this sinner has more boldness before God than I do; and this is not deceit or self-deception – recall that 0.0000001 talents (doubled) > 25 talents (which are only a quarter of the initial gift – 100 talents)) have mercy on me, a sinner!).
An advocate always seeks mercy, leniency, intercedes for the criminal (even a maniac, terrorist – an obvious criminal to everyone, who himself admitted his crimes. Let us imitate the Advocate, the God Savior, the Paraclete-Comforter! So that at the Judgment we can be our own advocate, not a judge or prosecutor! Who judges, accuses?! The prosecutor-devil! If we become incapable of judging, condemning – being a prosecutor or judge, but become merciful advocates for all people (including the devil and demons), then when the question arises: what to do with us (with me), I, having the habit of showing mercy (defending, justifying, comforting) everyone (wishing everyone Happiness – to know God in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit, so that everyone inherits the Kingdom of God), will be able to show mercy to myself, forgive myself and condemn myself to Eternal Life, to the Kingdom of God, to Love for God and the image of God (for every created person).
God has given all judgment to the Son and to all the children of God. (The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, does not judge anyone – He loves and shows mercy to all, saves, intercedes!). The only-begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, condemned Himself to faithfulness, obedience to the Father, to the Kingdom of God! And what will the rest of the children (all people, sons of this age) condemn themselves to, it depends on them – they are judges for themselves, and in their power (which the Father gave them) to judge: to condemn Christ (God) to death, to crucify, to expel from their life, or to be crucified with Christ and let Christ God (the Kingdom of God) into their heart! God does not judge anyone! God is Love! This is why the Judgment of God is terrible! Because the judge in it is myself! And how hard it is to condemn oneself to Heaven (more precisely, to the Kingdom of God), to Happiness, the path to which is the Cross of Christ, and how easy and desirable (passionately) it is to condemn oneself to hell! Be vigilant, pray at all times, so as not to enter into temptation!
The Judgment of God is Terrible because the judge in it is I (everyone is their own judge)! God is Love, therefore He does not judge anyone, but Loves-Mercy, Saves, so God is either the accused (crucified), or the Advocate, Comforter, Intercessor, Defender-Savior, and no one gave the devil the power to judge, he is only the prosecutor-accuser (he himself chose this “service”). Someone might say: if I am the judge of myself – that’s wonderful: I will sentence myself to the best, condemn myself to Eternal Bliss!? And I will ask such a dreamer: why do you not now, here and now, condemn yourself to the Kingdom of God (which has already come!), to Joy, Freedom, Love in the Holy Spirit, but suffer, are tormented in the hell of self-egoism-pride (from various passions)?! The Kingdom of God has come (the Holy Spirit has already been poured out on all flesh in Christ) and whoever wants, enters it here and now, through the cross of Christ, by following Christ, carrying their own cross! Instead of condemning themselves to the Kingdom of God, people condemn themselves and others to the hell of pride-egoism, darkness, sorrow, complaints, claims, anger, malice… If we do not repent, then at the Terrible Judgment of God we will condemn ourselves to hell, and God will not ask us from ourselves! Be vigilant and pray not to fall into temptation!