Metropolitan Onufry: Trials help us understand what matters most in life
Any trial, even the most insignificant, is akin to answering the question, “Are you faithful to Christ or not?” explained His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry.
There are no trifling temptations. It was said by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine at the last Sunday sermon, according to the UOC Information and Education Department.
“All temptations are important because we have to respond to them: yes, I am faithful to God, I want to serve God, I want to live with God,” he stressed.
According to him, overcoming trials, a person finds out what he really is and what he is capable of: “Living in prosperity, he may not even know what is inside his soul – he seems to be in hibernation. But when a person goes through grief, illness, sometimes he himself is surprised to reveal some feelings, to be capable of certain actions ... And it happens that at such moments a person must “put his life above the board”.
“If a person entrusts himself to God, then the Lord inspires him with the spirit of strength and wisdom, the spirit of wisdom and greatness,” he emphasized.
But in order to understand “what light and what darkness is, what life and what death is,” said His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry, “it is important that a person be endowed with spiritual knowledge – the wisdom people draw from the Holy Scriptures.”
“The person who delves into the Holy Scriptures can assess the situation in which he is now and will correctly determine his actions to take his steps tomorrow,” concluded the Primate.
As it was reported by the UOJ, earlier His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine emphasized that one cannot pay for a place in the world with the purity of faith: if a person betrays Christ, he can find a lot for himself but lose the main thing – eternal salvation.
