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Saint Anthony the Great: Guard Yourself Today, Not Yesterday
What the video says
The speaker gives a warning and an instruction. He says not to trust in your own righteousness and not to spend your life worrying over what has already passed. Instead, guard yourself today: control your tongue, discipline your desires, keep God before your eyes, and do the good that has been placed in front of you.
Key moments
- Do not trust in your own righteousness.
- Do not spend your life worrying over what has already passed.
- Guard yourself today.
- Control your tongue and discipline your desires.
- Keep God before your eyes and do the good placed in front of you.
A short teaching attributed to Saint Anthony the Great is presented with the hashtags love, orthodox, saints, bible, and christianity. The speaker delivers it as a warning and an instruction. The warning has two parts: do not trust in your own righteousness, and do not spend your life worrying over what has already passed. The instruction turns attention to the present day. The listener is told to guard himself today by controlling his tongue, disciplining his desires, keeping God before his eyes, and doing the good that has been placed in front of him.
The teaching moves from what to avoid to what to do: self-trust and regret over the past are set aside in favor of watchfulness over the present. Each command concerns ordinary daily conduct, speech, appetite, attention to God, and the work at hand. The post offers no further commentary or discussion; it presents the words of the saint directly, framed as a call to vigilance in the current day rather than confidence in past achievements or sorrow over past failures.
Main points
- Do not trust in your own righteousness.
- Do not spend your life worrying over what has already passed.
- Guard yourself today.
- Control your tongue and discipline your desires.
- Keep God before your eyes and do the good placed in front of you.