{"id":19454,"date":"2020-12-01T19:52:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/?p=19454"},"modified":"2020-12-01T20:39:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T17:39:36","slug":"reflection-on-ps-421-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/reflection-on-ps-421-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection on Ps 42:1-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em>As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em>My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/molitva-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19460\" src=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/molitva-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>If one has not suppressed a sense of truth, one is aware of the futility of life, and if one has faith, one longs to stand before God in prayer, i.e. in God\u2019s presence. Some saints would look for hours at the face of Christ on the cross. Here was the source of true wisdom. Here the mysteries of life encoded in the Bible were revealed to them. Here they were drawn deep into the great love of Christ for them and motivated to make heroic sacrifices for the salvation of souls. Here many even received the strength to die martyrs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We live in very hard times. We can say we are already entering the apocalyptic age, when each of us will be put to the test in connection with vaccination and chipping which will carry punishments if rejected. Maybe the martyr\u2019s crown is prepared for some. That is why it is so important that our soul pants for God as the deer pants for the water brooks.<!--more--> That it thirsts for the living God \u2013 for the day it shall come and appear before God, not just seeing a poor reflection as in a mirror, as the Apostle says, but seeing Him face to face in eternity. <em>\u201cFor now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.\u201d<\/em> (1Cor 13:12)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Reflection-on-Ps-42_1-2.doc\">Reflection on Ps 42:1-2<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? If one has not suppressed a sense of truth, one is aware of the futility of life, and if one has faith, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19454"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19464,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454\/revisions\/19464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}