A person, when happy, has no time to think about God – they act as if everything is owed to them. They don’t thank God, they simply enjoy their own happiness, forgetting the worries of everyday life.
We forget that everything given to us – happiness, suffering, joy, and worries – are merely elements of our life on earth. They alternate and are never constant. After moments of joy comes sadness, and after sadness, joy. In suffering and sadness, we often behave much worse because we don’t want to accept these states of our body and mind, looking for someone to blame. Unfortunately, instead of turning to God, we blame Him for our failures.
The lack of logic in our behavior is, as in other matters, very evident here. We don’t thank God for moments of happiness, as if they weren’t given to us by Him, but we blame Him for our problems. After all, day always follows night, and night follows day – we shouldn’t be surprised that happiness and sadness are part of the eternal cycle of our life, established by God.
God wants the best for us. He desires our salvation. After night, day always comes – this law applies to our life’s journey as well. The joy of birth turns into the sadness and suffering of death, and then the joy of resurrection and salvation should follow. Yet human nature, endowed with free will, strives for the opposite. At all costs, it seeks to change this, wallowing in sin and rebellion. After the night of the body’s death, only a few, as always, attain the dawn of salvation – for most, the night of damnation comes.
After all, we cannot expect to remain in the cycle of life while breaking God’s laws. We enter chaos, sadness, depression, and death. From a spiritual perspective, the same principles apply. The birth of a pure soul can be seen as a joyful and innocent dawn. Later, with the passage of time, the soul darkens until it falls into the state of the soul’s night. A new day should follow – a rebirth. It should, but very often the state of night persists for a long time, and due to our hardened hearts, only a few reach the sunny morning.
God gives us the cycle of life, and we choose the chaos of death. Isn’t it terrifying how, with our free will – the freedom so desired by people – we bring about the complete degradation of our minds?
Why do we so often choose sin now, which is not only a violation of God’s laws but also of human ones?
I described all, or nearly all, the reasons in the series “Spiritual Balance.” Looking at it simply, without any contexts, as our Lord Jesus Christ commanded – “yes” or “no” – everything is the result of our choices, and thus our freedom, that is, our free will. A simple analysis is enough to find solutions to our problems… but it’s too simple. It seems to us that the bigger the problem, the more difficult and convoluted the solution must be, which is an obvious lie.
We must look at the Gospel and the entire Revelation. What will we see? Simplicity. Yet people complicate everything, creating endless knots they can’t untie themselves later. This is one of humanity’s greatest paradoxes. Shepherds guarding sheep, instead of simply tending to them as God commanded, debate how to do it. As a result, first, they don’t know where the sheep are; second, they don’t see the wolves; and third, they don’t even know where they themselves are.
In simplicity lies the solution that provides answers to all the problems tormenting us.
We must ask ourselves and our souls simple questions that should contain the truth. This will act like medicine for our minds, tormented by lies.
Look at people on social media who, for years, find evidence of the evil in the system surrounding us. And what does it change? Nothing.
You support them, you pay subscriptions for their livelihood if they need it, and the system takes control of more and more areas of our lives without much trouble.
They keep fighting, but the problem is that they’re fighting for money, popularity, etc., and not against the system. Whether consciously or not, they support it, acting as safety valves that release social tensions. Closed groups on social media are an example of a parody. They present themselves as secretly conveying the truth, but it’s a secret only to those who aren’t part of the group. The system sees everything, so if there were anything truly harmful to it, it would block it immediately.
Asking simple questions and drawing simple conclusions unties all the knots, leads to awakening, and, over time, to rebirth and a return to the cycle of life. Examples of such questions when we hear about false mercy without justice, without conversion:
– If hell is empty, then where are, for example, Hitler and Stalin?
– If hell is empty, are sexually abused children together with their abusers in heaven?
– If someone doesn’t kneel when receiving the Blessed Sacrament, do they believe in the real presence of our Lord Jesus Christ?
– If a priest gives Holy Communion to those who don’t kneel, are public abortionists, or openly break God’s commandments, who does he believe in, and what are his intentions?
One could ask many such questions, and the answers are always simple, stemming from pure logic. But now, a way of thinking has been imposed on us that has nothing to do with logic. Everything is gray, not white or black. People linger in the evening twilight – they see neither the brightness of day nor the darkness of night, or, more simply, they remain in the chaos of death.
In the cycle of life, day follows night. St. John of the Cross wrote about the “dark night,” after which comes union with God, and thus the bright dawn of the soul. By lingering in the twilight, we will never see the darkness of night and then the brilliance of day. Grayness, twilight, a little sad, a little joyful. For example – I look and see a man, but the system tells me to say it’s a woman. You agree and remain in the twilight. Why? That’s simple too. Realizing it’s a lie, you don’t object, you agree, and so the contradiction in your behavior is evident, causing you to be cast out of the cycle of life.
Let us thank God for every moment – for the good one that comforts us and for the bad one that strengthens us. Only to God, because He is the Truth, He is our Salvation. Let us not drive nails into His Body, tormented by our sins. Let us strive to reject lies and remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the world will hate us. The eternal cycle of life established by God is the path to the cross and resurrection.
Arkadiusz Niewolski
Catholic during the Great Apostasy 
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