IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY ONE GOD AMEN!
Hi! All! How are you? I am fine, thanks to the Almighty God. How is life ?
My dear compatriots! Please read it all with great patience! I have written you this by thinking that it may add some value for your life.
Have a Nice Reading!
What God have for you....
Hope you have started your spiritual exercise to be better. Now it is time. As we do for other works we do exercise in spiritual life as well. There is no perfection without exercise in all respects.
Note: Words in double quotation marks are Amharic words.
God directed His holy servants to do an exercise in their lives. For example, "Mussie", first he was very angry man for he had killed the Egyptian in the quarrel with the Hebrew man. But later God taken him to the "Midyam" desert and made him very humble person after he has trained him a lot in his life. Later it was written that "Mussie" was the most humble man on Earth.
Other Saints reached the perfection in their spiritual life by exercising this life.
But What Spiritual Exercise mean?
Spiritual Exercise means an activity that can never be interrupted and that should be done through out our life. It is itself the life of Christianity. When we are doing spiritual exercise, we are trying to be loving, humble, modest, compassionate, trustful, faithful, helpful for others and always thinking the good.
We should always think as we are with God and God is perfectly merciful that He wants us to be merciful; God loves mankind and that He wants to love even our enemies. God wants us to be abided by His love and He wants us to love others as much as we love ourselves.
Spiritual Exercise is needed for us as the weakness of man kind goes with him throughout his life. In the way of spiritual life there are enormous obstacles that we may be halted from living in that holy path. But the perfect faith saying "God is merciful and He wants me to come again for He loves me" should be meditated in our mind and get into repentance ("Nisiha").
But here we should not do sin by saying that I will get into repentance after making this sin. But if we could not control ourselves and get involved in sin, repentance is a vital instrument that we can come back to the right.
How can we do spiritual exercise?
The life of Christianity is itself spiritual exercise. But what makes sense here is how to exercise means how we are to see the progresses that we attained. We are only to add the follow up means to see we are growing or at least we are not retarding by any means. This gives our lives of Christianity the face of spiritual exercise.
When we do spiritual exercise, we have to list down our weaknesses in one side and those strong sides we want to have in our life in one side. Then, we have to define the period of effective change (for example one or two months) and start to avoid one from the weaknesses and start to have one from Strong Sides we want to have in that period.
By this way we are going to avoid six bad characters and have six good characters in a year if we set the period for example as two months. How great the change is!!!!!! Let God help us in bringing this great but very gradual change!
After that period is elapsed (is finished), we have to evaluate the effectiveness of our exercise and the changes we have brought. We have to evaluate ourselves without forgiving for ourselves. Here there may not be 100% change as we wanted. But even small change is great. What we should think here is that we must always see ourselves in those points that we have exercised to bring positive progress and we should at least avoid negative progresses at all.
Having those changes in hands and trying to make them more accurate, we have to start the next step of exercise to avoid the next weakness and have the next strong character in our lives. In these sets of periods that you will never forget about your exercise and your existence with that graceful, Loving, Merciful and perfect father and His Mother as well as with all Saints, with out having noticed your growth, you will come to be more valuable, more polite, more considerate, more helping, more influential, more loving to all those people surrounding you with out any partiality, discrimination.
When you think about your growth under the umbrella of God, as He is Loving God He will care for you in all your ways as the mother cares for her small baby, you will not be tested to the degree you can not pass. The baby does not know who is caring for it. Rather it continues to play and move. Like wise, we do not how the hands of God covers us from the hands of evils that want to harm or throw poisonous swards. Rather we continue to think kindly in our mind and do what we have thought as much as possible.
Obstacles are mandatory in every respect. We may be trapped by the ways of sins. But the sins should not be made by thinking that God will forgive us. If we commit the sins in the lose of control for ourselves or unknowingly, we should come to him and tell our sin to his representative on Earth the father of confession in church ("Betechristian") i.e "Nisha Abat".
We have to note very well that we should keep ourselves from the ways that lead us to the situations in which we may loose control of ourselves and get involved in sins. This is the better solution. "Protection is better than cure."
Hopefully you will like to exercise having set your own period of effective change. Your periods should not be to large for you will postpone your exercise to the last weeks of your period letting you have reason of wickedness. It should not be too short for you will not bring permanent spiritual growth. But the appropriate length of the period can be set from your long experience of spiritual exercise.
Hi! All! How are you? I am fine, thanks to the Almighty God. How is life ?
My dear compatriots! Please read it all with great patience! I have written you this by thinking that it may add some value for your life.
Have a Nice Reading!
What God have for you....
Hope you have started your spiritual exercise to be better. Now it is time. As we do for other works we do exercise in spiritual life as well. There is no perfection without exercise in all respects.
Note: Words in double quotation marks are Amharic words.
God directed His holy servants to do an exercise in their lives. For example, "Mussie", first he was very angry man for he had killed the Egyptian in the quarrel with the Hebrew man. But later God taken him to the "Midyam" desert and made him very humble person after he has trained him a lot in his life. Later it was written that "Mussie" was the most humble man on Earth.
Other Saints reached the perfection in their spiritual life by exercising this life.
But What Spiritual Exercise mean?
Spiritual Exercise means an activity that can never be interrupted and that should be done through out our life. It is itself the life of Christianity. When we are doing spiritual exercise, we are trying to be loving, humble, modest, compassionate, trustful, faithful, helpful for others and always thinking the good.
We should always think as we are with God and God is perfectly merciful that He wants us to be merciful; God loves mankind and that He wants to love even our enemies. God wants us to be abided by His love and He wants us to love others as much as we love ourselves.
Spiritual Exercise is needed for us as the weakness of man kind goes with him throughout his life. In the way of spiritual life there are enormous obstacles that we may be halted from living in that holy path. But the perfect faith saying "God is merciful and He wants me to come again for He loves me" should be meditated in our mind and get into repentance ("Nisiha").
But here we should not do sin by saying that I will get into repentance after making this sin. But if we could not control ourselves and get involved in sin, repentance is a vital instrument that we can come back to the right.
How can we do spiritual exercise?
The life of Christianity is itself spiritual exercise. But what makes sense here is how to exercise means how we are to see the progresses that we attained. We are only to add the follow up means to see we are growing or at least we are not retarding by any means. This gives our lives of Christianity the face of spiritual exercise.
When we do spiritual exercise, we have to list down our weaknesses in one side and those strong sides we want to have in our life in one side. Then, we have to define the period of effective change (for example one or two months) and start to avoid one from the weaknesses and start to have one from Strong Sides we want to have in that period.
By this way we are going to avoid six bad characters and have six good characters in a year if we set the period for example as two months. How great the change is!!!!!! Let God help us in bringing this great but very gradual change!
After that period is elapsed (is finished), we have to evaluate the effectiveness of our exercise and the changes we have brought. We have to evaluate ourselves without forgiving for ourselves. Here there may not be 100% change as we wanted. But even small change is great. What we should think here is that we must always see ourselves in those points that we have exercised to bring positive progress and we should at least avoid negative progresses at all.
Having those changes in hands and trying to make them more accurate, we have to start the next step of exercise to avoid the next weakness and have the next strong character in our lives. In these sets of periods that you will never forget about your exercise and your existence with that graceful, Loving, Merciful and perfect father and His Mother as well as with all Saints, with out having noticed your growth, you will come to be more valuable, more polite, more considerate, more helping, more influential, more loving to all those people surrounding you with out any partiality, discrimination.
When you think about your growth under the umbrella of God, as He is Loving God He will care for you in all your ways as the mother cares for her small baby, you will not be tested to the degree you can not pass. The baby does not know who is caring for it. Rather it continues to play and move. Like wise, we do not how the hands of God covers us from the hands of evils that want to harm or throw poisonous swards. Rather we continue to think kindly in our mind and do what we have thought as much as possible.
Obstacles are mandatory in every respect. We may be trapped by the ways of sins. But the sins should not be made by thinking that God will forgive us. If we commit the sins in the lose of control for ourselves or unknowingly, we should come to him and tell our sin to his representative on Earth the father of confession in church ("Betechristian") i.e "Nisha Abat".
We have to note very well that we should keep ourselves from the ways that lead us to the situations in which we may loose control of ourselves and get involved in sins. This is the better solution. "Protection is better than cure."
Hopefully you will like to exercise having set your own period of effective change. Your periods should not be to large for you will postpone your exercise to the last weeks of your period letting you have reason of wickedness. It should not be too short for you will not bring permanent spiritual growth. But the appropriate length of the period can be set from your long experience of spiritual exercise.
