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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: thou mayest grow thereby, and attain unto the knowledge of the
commandments of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that thou mayest
henceforth be no more a child in mind, tossed to and fro, and
carried about on the wild and raging waves of thy passions: or
rather in malice be a child, but have thy mind settled and made
steadfast toward that which is good, and walk worthy of the
vocation wherewith thou wast called, in the keeping of the
commandments of the Lord, casting off and putting far from thee
the vanity of thy former conversation, henceforth walking not as
the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, having their
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