Disappointment, after sin, is a diabolical phenomenon

And now we end up saying that disappointment, after sin, is a consequent phenomenon, but "against nature"! It is a necessary evil.

It is as in the example of the wound and the pain. After the wound, pain follows. Man must, by all means, heal both the wound and the pain. Otherwise, he will be destroyed.

Disappointment after sin, no matter how great the sin, is a diabolical phenomenon. For there is no question of sinlessness, since God came knowing that man is utterly sinful, lost and reduced to death and destruction.

He came voluntarily out of love, MONASTERY, and embraced him and lifted him up.

Now how can we say “we are sinners and we are not Saints, that is why we despair.” Since He came for sinners and not for the righteous. He Himself confesses it.

Proof that he gave the keys of the kingdom to Peter, who denied him three times, and did not give them to John, the one he loved and trusted.

Not because God demeans virtue, but rather his paternal affection abounds, overflowing to the weak and the broken and the downtrodden.

And in this sense, one should not fear and not accept disappointment and discouragement as a consequence of sin, but like a spring, spring up again and say, "I have sinned, my God, do not write it off for me, I repent."

And so with courage may he continue his good fight, with unwavering faith in the All-Love and goodness of our Jesus. Amen.

ELDER JOSEPH OF VATOPEDIN – Teachings from Athos, Psychofeli Vatopedina 8, 3rd Edition, Published by the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi, Mount Athos 1999