Throughout our lives, God tries to teach us to swim in the ocean of beauty of our soul. He shows us how to calm the storms and tempests that happen in our lives, and one could even say more – which are an integral part of our miserable earthly life. But in order to see the calm surface of the water and the safe harbour, we have to take off the glasses through which we view the world. Whatever they are, whether they are dark, because we look at everything around us with pessimism, or rosy.
We must see the world as it really is, otherwise we will never see the Truth. Sins swept under the carpet are not invisible at all. A glow of evil is emanating from them, and threatening clouds are gathering around them, which at some point in our lives will create a powerful storm – which, like a tsunami, will destroy all the lies with which we have surrounded ourselves.
Only a pure soul allows us to swim calmly on this ocean and immerse ourselves in peace and tranquillity. And this is also what God teaches us. He tells us every second of our lives: close your eyes, trust and walk with Me. Cast off the unnecessary ballast of lies, sins and ordinary human passions. These are the things that drag you down and through which you will unfailingly drown.
Like a serfer rushing forward – only without a wave or wind or even a plank . Float on the wave of truth, plunge into the assessment of the purity of the soul and unite with God with an unbreakable knot of love. These are dreams so easy to realise and yet so difficult and distant that they are unrealistic for most.
So few of us believe. So few of us close our eyes and trust. But so many shout: I believe. With their eyes open they go without trust, sadly with the certainty of themselves, not of God … and they sink surprised and scared at the same time. This is always the case when you swim on the ocean of your own vanity, when you close your eyes not to see, not to trust.
Our souls are created to coexist with God; they are His house, but unfortunately we want so much to match God that we first start treating Him as a colleague and the commandments as unnecessary ballast, so we remove Him – in our foolishness thinking that nothing has happened. We seek freedom and find chains, bondage and death (eternal damnation). We behave like drunken mutineers who have seized the ship, thrown the helmsman and the captain overboard, and are now sailing aimlessly and directionlessly doomed, though not knowing the day or the hour when it will happen.
We crave things, feelings and acceptance. We so feverishly want to be accepted by other people that we fail to understand that it’s just a delusion and a lie; a momentary giddiness that quickly passes and you have to give up part of yourself again for it to return. And so on endlessly…
Feelings. We want to be loved, but do we know how to love? What kind of love do we want when we know no other but one based on the sins of the flesh. We reject God – pure love untainted by human passions, full of devotion and selflessness. If we cannot love God, we do not know true love. We only know physical attraction, or mental attraction, to inanimate things, because we treat even people as objects that we get bored with after a while and throw them away (divorce). We then look for other toys, but do not notice that we are constantly rummaging through the dustbin of our lives.
In this way, we will never know peace, solace of pain and desire, because we are walking in the path of Satan and not of God.
Our goal is to find love in God, for God and with God. This is the purpose of our life. This is the greatest treasure that will calm all the storms and tempests raging around us. This one thing will allow us to immerse ourselves in the purity of our souls and flow peacefully until the end of our days .
The key to the gates of Heaven is the total rejection of sin, leaving everything and following God. Any acceptance of even the smallest sins results in the breaking of this key, and therefore the consequences of painstakingly rectifying the wrong we have done.
Ask yourself, is it worth it for the sake of momentary desires that quickly pass and usually leave only the bitter taste of failure, to give up the most precious jewel we have – a gift from the Supreme Living God – our soul ?
Is it really worth it ?
Is it not better to build up faith within ourselves?
Step by step , commandment by commandment. Perhaps laboriously, slowly, but always moving forward.
It is not important who you were or even who you are. What matters is that you now decide to fight for your salvation. Maybe you look on helplessly as your loved ones have drifted away from the faith, unable to see the lies the world feeds them. Maybe you think that we are losing because they have the power, the money and the minds of our children. But you must always remember that they may have everything that is human but they do not have the most important thing.
They do not have God in their heart or soul , and so they will lose !
May our Lord Jesus Christ guide you all now and always .
If God is with us then what does it matter who is against us?
None at all !
Arkadiusz Niewolski
Catholic during the Great Apostasy 
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