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| Source: orthodoxartsjournal.org |
Worship God in spirit and in truth; in truth, for instance when you say, “Hallowed by Thy Name.” Do you really desire that God’s name should be hallowed by the good works of others and by your own? When you say, “Thy kingdom come,” do you indeed desire the coming of God’s kingdom? Do you wish to be the abode of the Spirit of God, and not the abode of sin?
Would you not more willingly live in sin? When you say, “Thy will be done,” do you not rather seek your own will than that of God? Ay, it is so! When you say, “Give us this day our daily bread,” do you not say something like this in your heart, “I do not need to ask this of Thee—I have enough without asking; let the poor ask for this?” Or else, do we not greedily seek for more, and are not satisfied with the little or with that which God has given us?
We do not thank God for what we have as we ought to.
—St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ