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Loving self, or Loving God?

January 19, 2018 by Fr. Ben Cameron Leave a Comment

Bishop Diadochus of Photice (5th century, Greece) wrote:

“No one who is in love with himself is capable of loving God. The man who loves God is the one who mortifies his self-love for the sake of the immeasurable blessings of divine love. Such a man never seeks his own glory but only the glory of God. If a person loves himself he seeks his own glory, but the man who loves God loves the glory of his Creator. Anyone alive to the love of God can be recognized from the way he constantly strives to glorify him by fulfilling all his commandments and by delighting in his own abasement. Because of his great majesty it is fitting that God should receive glory, but if he hopes to win God’s favor it becomes man to be humble….

Anyone who loves God in the depths of his heart has already been loved by God. In fact, the measure of a man’s love for God depends upon how deeply aware he is of God’s love for him. When this awareness is keen it makes whoever possesses it long to be enlightened by the divine light, and this longing is so intense that it seems to penetrate his very bones. He loses all consciousness of himself and is entirely transformed by the love of God.”

And such, my dear friends, should be our goal: to Love Almighty God to such a great degree, that we long for Him to the very core of our being! May we grow in that longing, every day, until it is fulfilled on the day that we joyfully go to meet the Lord as the Divine Bridegroom of our souls!

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