Self-knowledge (2)
The lack of desire to make the examination of conscience, or laziness to take time for this, two or three minutes, is clearly a temptation of the devil who wants to dissuade us from resorting to this means of improving the spiritual does not suit him. "It doubles the work and effort to not let us review our heart because he knows none of the benefits that the soul obtains this daily review (Hésiche, De virtute Temperantia and 1, 30). (read more )The devil really is the first enemy of our holiness and does everything to discourage us from fighting, to distract us from the effort. The fact of neglecting the fight and not to correct what deviates in our lives that our soul is slowly destroyed by the evil and falls idle, instead of providing "much fruit" (John 15, 8), and a fruit "that is sustainable" (John 15, 16). "I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of a madman. And behold all grown over with nettles, thistles had covered the surface, and the stone wall was broken down "(Proverbs 24, 30). Such is the state of the soul who indulges a deplorable state. Grace no longer produces effects. This soul is ready to be the prey of the devil.
Let us humbly to the Lord, and compare our approach with that of the Lord. Ask God to get to be sincere with ourselves. "The Lord is near to all who call on him, all those who invoke it with a sincere heart. It will accomplish the desire of those who fear him, and he will hear their cry and save them "(Psalm 145: 18-19). The soul then becomes a lush field, which produces all sorts of good works. Knowing himself better, it deepens also the knowledge of God, which she joined the image that is in it, and everything she does contributes to boosting the mystical body of Christ is the Church.
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