Tuesday, June 11 (May 29), 2024
Acts 17:19-28; Jn. 12:19-36

“Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit” [Jn. 12:24].  Thus, if you want to bear fruit, you ought to die.  Die indeed; keep in your heart the sense of being dead to the world.  

A dead body does not react to anything around it; and you do likewise: remain quiet to praises, quiet to rebuke, quiet to profit, quiet to loss, quiet to plenty, quiet to hunger.  Be quiet to all external things, while inside also follow the dead to where they all are ─ to the other world, coming before the face of God, getting ready to hear His last and righteous judgment.

What good, you might say, will such an attitude bring about, if everything comes to a standstill?  No, no standstill at all; on the contrary, a lot of new energy will appear.  You will say to yourself: it’s just one more minute left before the final sentence! let me hurry to do something good! ─ and then you will do it.  And so it will go on and on, at any minute.

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