The Lord treats us in a completely different way. He calls us His children, and He calls Himself our Father. Be ye as merciful as your Father which is in heaven (Luke 6:36). That is, be not believers, not religious, but children of God. This means that one must unite with God, truly become completely equal to Him, feel with completely different feelings, determine one's life by completely different actions, as the Lord commands.

And it may turn out that the Kingdom of Love, to which people somehow strove, somehow imagined it, will suddenly turn out to be inaccessible for one simple reason: they imagined the Kingdom of Love differently from what it really is. Another love is spoken of. About the love that makes a person merciful. About the love that makes a person humble. About the love that makes a person perfect in Christ.

But now he no longer condemns himself for the weakness of his love, only marvels at the infinity of God.

It was on earth that he repented, not yet knowing what repentance was. In heaven, the judgment over oneself turned out to be the fullness of love.

Lev Karsavin

To live according to the laws of the Kingdom of Heaven is unbearably difficult for us. And in this is the basis for the most terrible torment. It is painful for a person to live a spiritual life.

It is painful to be close to Christ. It is very difficult and unpleasant to completely submit oneself to the laws of that love, according to which the Kingdom of Heaven lives and according to which the very Last Judgment takes place. Let there be no judgment, but the love with which the Lord came into the world will become the light in which each person will be seen: he is Christ's own or someone else's; There is at least a little bit of such love in him, or he has not acquired anything in his life. That's the whole trial. And He will not ask anything else. The Lord will not tell us any more. And simply by His love, each of us will be so scorched that for someone this love will become hellfire.

Yes, it is a judgment of infinite mercy and infinite love. But the kind of love that we don't have yet. The love that is not yet available to us. We are afraid to believe that His love can be our bliss, our ultimate bliss. We limit our life and our communion with God and commit a kind of deception: let us do a good deed, live a little spiritual life, and then return to our old selves, to those whom we love in ourselves, to whom we are accustomed, in order to live a comfortable, habitual measured life outside the Kingdom of Heaven.

Abba Dorotheus says: "Not the merciful who once gave alms, not the humble who once humbled himself, not the chaste who once apostatized from sin, but the one who is such every minute of his life." He is merciful for whom this state has become natural, his character, habit, has become his personality. And only then will a person not notice his mercy when he is truly merciful, just as we do not notice that we breathe. "When, Lord, did we do this? When did we serve You?" Such people are surprised, because it has become their natural need. They enter the Kingdom of love on earth. There is no Last Judgment for them. Because the judgment that was pronounced was pronounced by them - to themselves. For each of his betrayals, for his every misdeed, for his every unfaithfulness to Christ. These people are real, correct, righteous, because everything with them, like the sun of righteousness, everything is the same as with God.

First, love for God, through it, as a consistent desire to please God, love for one's neighbor, and then remaking oneself for one's neighbor.

St. Rights. Alexy (Mechev)

Can we think that God is really the most important thing for us, that every breath we breathe is connected with Him, that for His sake we are ready to forget about everything? What measure do we allow for God in our hearts?

To the question: Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the law? Christ answered: "To love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength" (Matt. 22:3637). The Gospel always tells us about the most important things. He speaks simply, directly, openly, leaving no opportunity for a person to somehow interpret these words in his own way. Although, on the other hand, these words always make it impossible for a person to fully understand this simplicity. It would seem that everything is really simple, you can't say it is simpler. What can be more important for a person than eternal life? What could be more important than God? If we once said to Him: "I believe, Lord, and I confess." If we once took these oaths in the Sacrament of Holy Baptism and worshipped Him as King and God, then there can be nothing more important in the life of a Christian. It's so simple and so far away from us. It is easy to understand that it is possible to make some sacrifice to God, that it is possible to perform some kind of ritual for God. But how do you understand that you need to love God with all your heart?

Reading the lives of the saints of previous centuries, we learn how they prayed, fasted, humbled themselves, and in the end were vouchsafed a blessed end, and the Lord glorified them. This is the Christian life! But we live in a different time What does it mean for us to love God? After all, you cannot be born with this love. The ability to love the Lord with all one's soul is not given to a person from birth. Those of Christ who have crucified their flesh with passions and lusts (Gal. 5:24). This is what the Christian life is. This is where the love of God begins. Love is crucifixion. Christ on the Cross brought us this love and showed us what it means to love a person with all your heart, with all your soul. He himself showed how God loves man. He left mankind the only way to love. We have no other way of love.