http://orthodox.net/redeemingthetime/2009/11/03/that-we-may-be-delivered-from-all-tribulation-wrath-and-necessity/ McKinney TX Homilies, scripture commentary, spiritual reflections Tue, 21 May 2013 19:41:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://orthodox.net/redeemingthetime/2009/11/03/that-we-may-be-delivered-from-all-tribulation-wrath-and-necessity/comment-page-1/#comment-2333 Deborah Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:47:24 +0000 http://orthodox.net/redeemingthetime/?p=1283#comment-2333 Thank you very much for this helpful explanation and clarification, Father. I have heard this prayer many times, but in all those times I was thinking of "delivered from all...necessity" as an appeal for deliverance from neediness--as in an appeal to God to fulfill our needs. I see now that it means a deliverance from all compulsions to sin. In a way that is a deliverance from a form of neediness--it is the deliverance from the desires (things that we perceive as 'needs') and circumstances that drive us to sin. This will give a whole new, powerful meaning to this prayer each time I hear this prayer, from now on. Thank you very much for this helpful explanation and clarification, Father. I have heard this prayer many times, but in all those times I was thinking of “delivered from all…necessity” as an appeal for deliverance from neediness–as in an appeal to God to fulfill our needs. I see now that it means a deliverance from all compulsions to sin. In a way that is a deliverance from a form of neediness–it is the deliverance from the desires (things that we perceive as ‘needs’) and circumstances that drive us to sin. This will give a whole new, powerful meaning to this prayer each time I hear this prayer, from now on.

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