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.

The Lord says: "Whosoever loveth his father or his mother more than Me is not worthy of Me" (Matt. 10:37). Indeed, he who puts earthly things, even from the noblest motives, above the spiritual, above the love of God, can pass by his salvation. Because salvation is possible only when a person strives to love God as his Father.

Hearing these words, we begin to weigh on the scales of our hearts, and whom do we love more: God or our parents, God or our children, God or our fatherland?

We love our homeland, it is very pleasant for us to think of our homeland as of Holy Russia, but in reality the earthly homeland is sanctified only by the feat of searching for the Heavenly Fatherland. And if a person seeks only earthly things in his homeland, he also loses his earthly homeland, and does not come to the Heavenly Fatherland. And only those of our compatriots whom we commemorate as saints truly became citizens of Holy Russia because they loved their earthly homeland as the home of the Most Holy Theotokos, as the abode of the Most Holy Trinity, as a place prepared for the podvig and salvation of their fellow citizens.

And therefore, when there is a question of love for God, it is a question of attitude towards our neighbors and those who are far away, and, in the end, it is a question of our holiness. The path to holiness is the meaning of our life and consists in loving the Lord with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, with all our strength, and then with our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:3031). And of this the Lord says: "If a man come unto me, and hateth not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and moreover his very life, he cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:26). But this does not mean that you should abandon your loved ones or completely forget about them. On the contrary, the one who truly loves God acquires a mother, a father, a husband, a wife, children, and everyone in general, because love for God makes a person holy, perfect, infinite, makes him a son of God. And to the son of God all things belong: salvation belongs to the son, and eternal life belongs to the son, and judgment belongs to the sons, the children of God.

The whole judgment is only in the fact that the Lord has come to us. He came with His love, with His grapes, He gave Himself to us for food. What can be more terrible than this judgment, when we reject it, do not accept it, if we do not need Christ, if we do not need love, but if we need to live only for ourselves, only in our own way? This is the Last Judgment, when the Lord comes to you with love, and you spit on Him.

Everything is given to us. The great wealth of God's mercy and spiritual life belongs to each of us. Why do we live so strangely? Why do we always look away? Is it really not enough for us that the Lord Himself came to us, offered Himself as a sacrifice, so that we would love Him at least a little?

We must be one spirit with the Lord, the spirit of holiness, the spirit of love, kindness, meekness, longsuffering, and mercy. Whoever does not have this spirit in himself is not God's. So, I must be love, one love, consider everyone as one. That they may all be one (John 17:21). Wake! Lord, help me!