So, listen: Christians always “choose” one event for all events: whatever happens (the iPhone was stolen or even all property, or someone close fell ill or died, or any “loss”, anything unpleasant, bad, painful (by the standards of this world) happened) – it is Divine Love, fully poured out on them, meaning that they here and now, through everyone and everything, are Divinely Loved by the Father (Jesus and the Holy Spirit and all who are partakers of Love, that is, Spirit-bearers) and gifted with everything needed for Divine Bliss-Peace – meaning that here and now the entire reality, which is (created and Uncreated) – All and Everything (yes, yes, absolutely everything that exists (what is temporary) and what IS (Eternal)): unpleasant, painful, sorrowful… – all that is absolutely necessary for my Healing-Salvation, that is, Humility; like an expensive operation that is urgently needed for a seriously ill person; and here I am given (as a gift) an operation (or course of treatment) for free, which I could never pay for myself – and a Benefactor paid for it for me!
Therefore, “Satan’s thorn” is a great gift, and extremely necessary, desperately desired for the Spirit-bearers) – it’s all a Gift of the Loving Father to me, for me! That is, every moment everything and everyone is gifted to me – and for those who know this Gospel (that is, Christians), it remains Eucharist (Gratitude) to accept the Gift, Grace (everyone and everything), and in Joy, corresponding to the Gift and Gratitude, to Love (by the Holy Spirit) in return the One who confessed in Love by the Gift, Grace, the Father, Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and everyone, and everything! Only Christians can relate to everything this way by the power and wisdom of the Holy Spirit, the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, who live by the Love of God the Father. And you carry thoughts of at least common sense and sober, sincere, unbiased judgment, and of course, in your measure – from the perspective of Eternity (Love, Personal Hypostatic Being) or at least death – remembering that we all will leave from here (II phase) and take nothing with us (except our sins or good deeds, except desires or virtues)! Here are the “tricks” (miracles) Christians perform, already living Eternity in this world…
And one more thing: all losses and gains are realized in our heads, in thoughts. The ancients said: woe (misfortune) from the mind (we can add: happiness also from the mind), so the Church calls every person to repentance (change of mind, change of consciousness, change of thinking from selfish (full of pride) to personal-hypostatic (full of Love)). Nothing can be stolen from me in principle, because everything, absolutely everything – is mine forever, my Gift forever (for ages and ages)! Everything belongs to everyone (but I’ll tell you a secret – it’s gifted to me (everyone) to give, to gift, not to keep, to appropriate, to hold tightly in hands and heart)… But this is a separate conversation, not now (we discussed this in detail in previous parts, especially in part IV), because I see that Dzunyk’s processor is starting to lag again… Thank God, at least he understood about the iPhone, at least he won’t worry so much and think about what harm-evil to inflict on himself or someone else. Thank God! So, let’s repeat once again: the problem is not in wealth, property, “ownership” as such – problems begin when we want to have (a lot or a little, or even everything, or nothing at all) for ourselves, and not for others, to serve (him, them with Gifts: Spiritual, emotional, and physical) and to rejoice him (them) with everything we have and who we are (that is, ourselves) in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit to the glory of God the Father!
We won’t talk much about lust, just briefly remind you of what we talked about before. Eternity (“infinity”) amplifies every joy-pleasure to infinity (that is, makes it divine), when shared with God and for God with others – the more you give (share), the more you receive, or rather, a hundredfold (this is an Eternal, Spiritual law). True pleasure is the one that does not pass, so the problem of pleasure is solved only in Eternity, in Bliss, in the Paradise of Pleasure! Any suffering (enemy of pleasure) is also destroyed only by Eternity, only by Eucharist; Happiness, Bliss, Pleasure only in Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit!
We are created for pleasure, glory, reigning-possession, in one word, for Divine Happiness-Bliss, but to achieve this goal, we took the wrong path – the path of selfishness-pride instead of the only way that leads to the goal: Personal, Hypostatic Being in Love, that is, living in the Other and for the Other, in full kenotic self-giving and self-sacrifice! And the vicious path of selfishness-pride leads a person into the hellish swamps and quagmires of glory-seeking, money-love, and pleasure-love. Any selfish solution to life problems gives the same result: death – to kill someone or to kill oneself (glory-love, money-love), or to dissolve oneself (in the nirvana of pleasure-love) – to lose oneself, exhausting, emptying oneself of any desires (when nothing is wanted anymore, nothing pleases – this is the most ruinous state – see Rev. 3:16). That is, everywhere – death, the selfish solution to any problem – death. And the solution with the help of Eternity (Personality-Love) – Eternal Life, Divine Bliss-Happiness.