The demons, when they approach to fight you, do not go where you will easily defeat them,

  

The demons, when they approach to fight you, do not go where you will easily defeat them, but they test where you are weak. Where you do not expect them, there they besiege the castle. And, when they find a weak soul and a weak place, there they always defeat and make him responsible for his defeat.

Do you ask God for grace? Instead of grace, He leaves you temptation. You cannot endure the war, you fall? No addition of grace is given to you. Do you ask again? Again temptation. Again defeat? Again deprivation for life.

So you must emerge victorious. Endure temptation until death. Fall down like a corpse in battle, crying out paralyzed: I will not leave you, sweet Jesus! Nor will I forsake you! Inseparable I will remain for eternity, and for Your love I will die in battle. And suddenly he appears in the battle and shouts loudly:

Here I am! Gather all your strength and follow me!

Saint Joseph the Hesychast.