The only right way

There are many things in life that tend to push a person away from believing when things don't go the way they want. Life is a trial, from the first breath you take to the last. Poverty and wealth, sickness and health, tears and joy, love and hatred — absolutely everything in this life is a test. It is necessary to always remember this and treat this or that situation accordingly, to look at your life from the outside and analyze it. Because, as is often the case, when a person is poor, he or she is always trying to get out of the "pit" and it does not work — then the person falls. Know that if you have food in your refrigerator, clothes in your closet, a roof over your head, and a place to sleep, you are already richer than 75 % of the people. If you are healthy and don't have a terminal illness, you are luckier than the millions of people who will not survive this week. If you are reading or listening to these words right now, you are luckier than the millions of deaf and blind people. So don't complain. There are thousands of reasons to believe, to love, to live, to be grateful, and to be happy. You just have to see them. And what you don't have, you can make.

Both sorrow and joy are your test. You must have patience in your faith. Do everything according to the laws of the holy texts, and so be it. This is the only way to obtain the best for your future. Your suffering can be a blessing for you. It is the Creator's way of saving you from further suffering. How can you be sure that you will stand the test of prosperity, that your end will not be a tragedy, a drowning in sin? Many years ago, my grandmother said something that I still remember: "Man can endure any sorrow, but joy and wealth cannot." This expression fits in here as well as it can, because you never know what is going to be good for you and what is not.

Faith is an absolute conviction at the level of awareness of the truth, a constant certainty of the realization of the expected and the certainty of the unseen. "By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God" (Bible).

A believer is one who has believed and then has no doubt and fights the battle on his way with works, possessions, soul, mind, and heart. He is one who is certain without seeing and faithful without seeing.

And, as it is said, blessed is he who has believed without any apparent proof and has passed the test of faithfulness.

The consequence of faith is the fear of God. This is what makes a person live righteously.

Faith in God and His Word (the Scriptures) must be the highest and most important quality of man.

True faith implies a dedication to it for the rest of one's life and at every moment, regardless of the circumstances that surround us.

The process of believing is the perfection of an unquestionable, clear, absolutely convinced, even explicit recognition, as in seeing, of the existence of God, the recognition of His greatness, and the great importance of the fear of displeasing the Lord.

It's up to us whether we have faith or not. Everyone must make his own choice. Whether that choice leads to the right path or not depends on the person. That is the only thing that is entirely up to us, even though everything is predetermined, but as it is written, a man has to make that choice. A righteous person has to ask the Creator for it is he who is predestined to have this choice, the choice of faith. It is either the way of faith or the futile eternal search for truth.

There is no need for a reason to believe or not to believe. Faith, like love, is far more useful and life-giving than any other human quality. Neither self-confidence, nor willpower, nor perseverance, nor cheerfulness and positivity, nor even patience, nor intelligence, nor physical strength — nothing can compare in power to faith for a human being. It is the power of the mind and the most powerful thing in man. Therefore, a person should not choose it but should strive for it with all his strength, strive, and ask the Almighty to strengthen it, because there is nothing more useful for a person than faith.

It is also said in the Holy Books that everyone can be with God by believing and loving. If we love one another, that is, if we do good to one another, then "God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him" (the Bible). So the presence of love in your life is proof that God is with you. And you don't have to wait for a sign or a vision to prove God's presence. Faith and love in your soul is enough, as it says: "Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

The word "love" has many meanings. When I say love, I mean kindness to everything around me. There is a higher love. It is when you are willing to sacrifice your soul for someone. This is God's love revealed to us when He sent Christ to suffer for us.