The soul cannot have peace if it does not study the law of God day and night, for this law is written by the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God passes from Scripture to the soul, and the soul feels delight and pleasantness in this, and no longer wants to love earthly things, because love for earthly things devastates the soul, and then it becomes sad and wild, and does not want to pray to God. The enemy, seeing that the soul is not in God, shakes it and freely puts into the mind what it wants, and drives the soul from one thought to another, and so the soul spends the whole day in this disorder and cannot purely contemplate the Lord.

Posted by Victoria at 2024-08-16 12:15:18 UTC