Externally Tempted, Internally Filled with the Godhead
As the Lord put on the body, leaving behind every principality and power, in a similar way Christians put on the Holy Spirit and are at peace. Even if war starts externally and Satan attacks, still they are fortified interiorly by the Lord’s power and are not anxious about Satan.
As he tempted the Lord in the desert for forty days, what harm did he inflict on Him by attacking Him externally in His body? For interiorly He was God. So also Christians, granted they may be tempted exteriorly, nevertheless, interiorly they are filled with the Godhead and suffer no injury. If one has reached this degree, he has arrived at the perfect love of Christ and the fullness of the Godhead. But one, who is not of this type, still wages an interior war. For a certain hour he delights in prayer, but at another time he is bombarded by affliction and at war.
_St. Macarius the Great, Spiritual Homilies, 26, 15.
#SpiritualWarfare #InnerPeace #HolySpirit #Temptation #FullnessOfGod
As the Lord put on the body, leaving behind every principality and power, in a similar way Christians put on the Holy Spirit and are at peace. Even if war starts externally and Satan attacks, still they are fortified interiorly by the Lord’s power and are not anxious about Satan.
As he tempted the Lord in the desert for forty days, what harm did he inflict on Him by attacking Him externally in His body? For interiorly He was God. So also Christians, granted they may be tempted exteriorly, nevertheless, interiorly they are filled with the Godhead and suffer no injury. If one has reached this degree, he has arrived at the perfect love of Christ and the fullness of the Godhead. But one, who is not of this type, still wages an interior war. For a certain hour he delights in prayer, but at another time he is bombarded by affliction and at war.
_St. Macarius the Great, Spiritual Homilies, 26, 15.
#SpiritualWarfare #InnerPeace #HolySpirit #Temptation #FullnessOfGod
🛡️ Externally Tempted, Internally Filled with the Godhead ✨
As the Lord put on the body, leaving behind every principality and power, in a similar way Christians put on the Holy Spirit and are at peace. Even if war starts externally and Satan attacks, still they are fortified interiorly by the Lord’s power and are not anxious about Satan.
As he tempted the Lord in the desert for forty days, what harm did he inflict on Him by attacking Him externally in His body? For interiorly He was God. So also Christians, granted they may be tempted exteriorly, nevertheless, interiorly they are filled with the Godhead and suffer no injury. If one has reached this degree, he has arrived at the perfect love of Christ and the fullness of the Godhead. But one, who is not of this type, still wages an interior war. For a certain hour he delights in prayer, but at another time he is bombarded by affliction and at war.
_St. Macarius the Great, Spiritual Homilies, 26, 15.
#SpiritualWarfare #InnerPeace #HolySpirit #Temptation #FullnessOfGod
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