Agathon

And sometimes it's easier to look at familiarity by seeing kind of what it's not.

There was a brother that asked Abba Agathon, he said, I want to go live with the other brothers.

Tell me, how should I behave when I'm with them? And that's the question that we got all.

I'll say, I have a good community of people.

I found the desert father who we read also on the point of death.

And Abba Agathon.

If I may, it ties into this.

So when he was at the point of death, he remained three days with his eyes fixed wide open.

The brethren roused him saying, Abba Agathon, where are you? He replied, I am standing before the judgment seat of God.

They said, are you not afraid father? He replied until this moment, I have done my utmost to keep the commandments of God, but I am a man.

How should I know if my deeds are acceptable to God? The brethren said to him, Do you not have confidence in all that you have done according to the law of God? The old man replied, I shall have no confidence until I meet God.

And there was silence.