Secondly, you must pray with love – Your will be done! "I seek one thing here, and I think only one thing, that Thy will may be done in all things, O Lord!" May the majesty of Thy name be spread and glorified, O my God, through me, Thy useless servant. This alone I consider it my greatest honor and reward, that I may be worthy to please You, my Creator, Who has granted me reason and free will as a pledge of close communion with You, my Creator and Savior.

St. John Chrysostom instructs me in this, saying: "You do not understand what is meant by the expression: to please God — that is, to pray to Him, to glorify His omnipotence, truth and mercy, and to do His will — if you seek another reward in pleasing God; the highest reward is our living communion with God.

Thirdly, our desire to fulfill the undoubted will of God must be hasty (quick) and unconstrained (done of our own free will). May Thy will be done, Heavenly Father, I am ready to fulfill it without delay and at my own will. Whoever first considers whether or not to fulfill the commandments of God does not want to fulfill them. For it is characteristic of him who willingly consecrates himself to the service of God to be always ready and without the slightest delay to fulfill His holy will. The free will, which does a good deed, is deprived of the grace of God as much as it is lazy to do good works. Therefore, every true Christian must always repeat with David: "My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready; I will sing and sing in my glory" (Psalm 107:2).

In the 4th, the will of God should be done with heartfelt pleasure. Some things are done quickly, but reluctantly, not from the heart. And therefore the Apostle Paul admonishes the Corinthians, saying: "He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; but he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Give each one according to the disposition of the heart, not with grief or compulsion; for God loves him who gives heartily" (2 Corinthians 9:6-7). Whoever has suggested that in all his work he should act according to the will of God, if he encounters something sorrowful, he does not consider it as such, but takes it as happy, easily bears it on himself, saying with Christ the Lord: "My food does the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work. Therefore, Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth."

In the 5th, the fulfillment of the will of God must be perfect and complete. A person who wants to truly fulfill the will of God and be pleasing to God does not look for justifying reservations and imaginary reasons for delaying the fulfillment of God's will. He does not say, "I will do Thy will, O Lord, but not now; I will listen to Thee, O Lord, to obey Thee, but do not command me to do it at once; I am ready to wash and kiss everyone's feet, only do not force me to do this to my enemy; I will not refuse to endure humiliation, so long as no one sees it; I am ready to do everything, but do not demand this from me.

Not so are those who are devoted and obedient to the will of God; they renounce nothing, they do not remove themselves from calamities, but humbly and wholly submit themselves to the will of God, saying: O God! if it pleases Thee that I endure great and most grievous sorrows and trials, here I am – ready for anything, I will gladly accept everything, I will not refuse anything, command me to punish me even more heavily, only let Thy holy and righteous will be in me and over me

In the 6th, fulfilling the will of God completely, everyone must be long-suffering: "Thy will be done, O Lord, by me and over me, for tens, hundreds, thousands of years, and forever and ever—Thy will be done for all endless ages. I have inclined my heart to fulfill Thy statutes forever, to the end. (Psalm 118:112). Do you want, Lord, that I endure (wait for salvation) a hundred, a thousand years — and I will endure; Thus, it is desirable and most pleasing for those who truly love their Lord to repeat the Lord's Prayer unceasingly—these are the wings of the Seraphim, with the help of which we, the earthly ones, will be able to rise to heights and raise our minds and hearts above the heavens, to the very throne of the Most High.

Like God's chosen ones, we must seek the love that God accepts

God's chosen ones, the holy saints, rejoice more in the perfection of God's will than in their own dignity and glory. Therefore, all of them, and each of them, is satisfied with his reward and the honor deserved by God, and not one of them exalts himself before others for his merits. For they, who always see God before them and burn with a common love for Him, not only have a will similar and in accordance with His will, but are absorbed, so to speak, by the latter, and have been completely transformed into it and act by it alone. They rejoice and desire that God alone should work in them and through them, without ascribing anything to himself, they rejoice that God's will for us to be blessed in God and God to dwell in us, and not to be blessed in the world outside of God, enjoying only worldly goods and not knowing about God, or forgetting Him, his Creator.

Thus, the transformed human will, through its closest communion and assimilation to the will of God, attracts to itself the action of the all-embracing love of God, which can be called the complete embodiment of the will of God in man, without the slightest limitation of man's own will, freely submitted to the will of God. And it is this union of the human will with the will of God in the union of love that brings the greatest joy and joy to the chosen righteous of God. They undoubtedly believe in eternal life with God, love God, their neighbors, and all of God's creation with all their hearts, and, having in themselves a constant firm hope in the immutability of the promises of the incarnate Word of God, confirmed by the historical destinies of the Church, peoples and kingdoms living and acting in the spirit of Christ, they consider themselves happy and prosperous.

On the contrary, those who weaken in strict adherence to the teaching of Christ, or stubbornly reject it, they consider unhappy, and, in the end, perishing. The chosen ones of God desire that the Name of God, His wisdom, power, mercy and righteousness should be revered by all peoples and tribes, that all people (as creatures of the One God) should live among themselves in peace and harmony, that those who know God should instruct those who do not know Him, that the elders should instruct the younger to all that is good, that the strong should protect and patronize the weak, and that everyone should do unto all others in this way. how he wishes for himself that others would do to him, and not only in words, but also in deeds. The crown of triumph and gladness of righteous souls is the universal glorification of the infinite perfections of God, of His greatest power and immeasurable power and dominion.

As good, well-behaved children do not envy their parents in their happy life, in their wealth and contentment, and heartily desire them even greater good, as well as themselves, and even wish them more than themselves, so also the elect of God rejoice in the ineffable bliss in which God dwells, as well as in their own, and, contemplating it, sing at the throne of God those soul-stirring songs, which St. John heard while on the island of Patmos, according to the heavenly revelation that had come to him there: "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory, honor and power to our Lord! For true and righteous are His judgments. Hallelujah! For the Lord God Almighty has reigned: let us rejoice and be glad, and give Him glory!" (Rev. 19:1-7).

Such a transfiguration, or rather the closest union of God's elect with the Divine will, can be achieved in the following way: let us carefully direct our minds to the consideration of the highest perfections of God (as far as they are revealed to us) — His power (power), eternity, wisdom, beauty, and infinite incomprehensible bliss. Let our heart rejoice in the fact that God, one in His essence, glorified in the Holy Trinity by His persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is eternal beginningless and infinite goodness, the source of all riches (spiritual and material), needing nothing, generous to all His creatures, invisibly present with all and omnipotent.

The totality and crown of all these God's perfections is Divine Love, as the very essence of God, the Divine life, "God is love" (1 John 4:8). For there can be no greater (perfect) love than that with which God loves Himself both in Himself and in His creatures, for God so loved the world (i.e., all people as God's creation) that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life (John 3:16). And there is no more perfect love among us, except that love which comes closest and closest to the love of God.