When it comes to our soul many of us live as if everything we learned in Sunday School was enough to get us through the daily struggles of life. Some even leaven their soul unattended, or worse allow bad seed to make its way in. As the Lord explains in the Parable of the Sower,…
When it comes to our soul many of us live as if everything we learned in Sunday School was enough to get us through the daily struggles of life. Some even leaven their soul unattended, or worse allow bad seed to make its way in. As the Lord explains in the Parable of the Sower, our soul is at times hard, rocky, filled with weeds, or even rich fertile soil, but it doesn’t happen by itself. It requires work to improve the condition of our soul to receive the Word of God, and it requires work to maintain a healthy soul. Luck for us we have the Church and the way of life of Orthodox Christianity to work our soul to prepare it for the Good Seed, the Word of God.
Father, I hope you have a good life, filled with the Lord's light, thank you for sharing your light with the world. I pray for your safety as I do for everyone, and I pray that everyone finds the Lord in any way possible especially in these chaotic times. Thank you for everything you do.
Do you explain what you mean by soul? Too many people can't tell me what the soul is or adopt CS Lewis view that soul is the essence or innermost part of our being. Some say the soul is immortal but that is a property not a description. Have listened to a number of your other sermons and for the most part I agree with your point of view.