"God Sees the Truth, but Waits." A short story by Leo Tolstoy

"God Sees the Truth, But Waits" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy that explores themes of injustice, forgiveness, and faith.

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  • @MehreenGulAmjad-th8mo
    @MehreenGulAmjad-th8mo5 ай бұрын

    Life is not limited only in this world. There is life after we pass our test in this life

  • @ThomasAllan-up4td

    @ThomasAllan-up4td

    3 ай бұрын

    How can you possibly know there is a life beyond this earthly life? Not to confuse you. I know there is a continuam. But life is not a " test" , nor an experiment of God's to see how we all measure up, just for His amusement. You may as well believe in Zeus and the other gods playing celestial chess with Jason and the Argonauts. Just for their amusement as well. The world has lost sight of God.

  • @drivebyquipper

    @drivebyquipper

    3 ай бұрын

    There is more to it than passing a test. No one can pass the test.

  • @drivebyquipper

    @drivebyquipper

    3 ай бұрын

    @@ThomasAllan-up4td Forgiveness is a good place to start.

  • @ThomasAllan-up4td

    @ThomasAllan-up4td

    3 ай бұрын

    @@drivebyquipper so why does God not forgive? " Vengeance is Mine" Saeith the Lord. I will repay " . He did not prepare hell to heat itself in perpetual emptiness.

  • @ThomasAllan-up4td

    @ThomasAllan-up4td

    3 ай бұрын

    @@drivebyquipper trust no one, is the best and only way to start. After that whatever goes wrong,will be your own fault. You can have reasonable expectations, but even then , you will experience disappointment. Don't harbour great expectations. Trust me.

  • @teeny765
    @teeny7653 ай бұрын

    His mission here was to forgive the unforgivable, and when it was complete, God took him home. To me, it is a happy ending. :)

  • @Greg-yu4ij
    @Greg-yu4ij5 ай бұрын

    That was a beautiful story. When you forgive someone, it brings inner peace to your soul. When you are at the mercy of your enemy and you are forgiven even though you don’t deserve it, it brings inner peace to your soul

  • @cynthiaengel568

    @cynthiaengel568

    4 ай бұрын

    Not always. Please consider Javert’s reaction at the end of Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables.” Thanks.

  • @drivebyquipper

    @drivebyquipper

    3 ай бұрын

    @@cynthiaengel568 Think of the cross.

  • @cynthiaengel568

    @cynthiaengel568

    3 ай бұрын

    @drivebyquipper. Kindly elaborate. Thank you.

  • @cynthiaengel568

    @cynthiaengel568

    3 ай бұрын

    @drivebyquipper I was attempting to point out that Javert’s reaction, to being spared by Valjean, was an analogy to Judas Iscariot’s inability to accept Our Lord’s forgiveness.

  • @matthewrippingsby5384
    @matthewrippingsby53845 ай бұрын

    Great story, brilliantly read! Thanks for expanding my horizons. 👍

  • @drivebyquipper

    @drivebyquipper

    3 ай бұрын

    The best narrator on KZread!

  • @agneshouessou9765
    @agneshouessou9765Ай бұрын

    'Exiled in Siberia'. 👍✝️🛐💒🌹 Thank you. Shared.

  • @meetontheledge1380
    @meetontheledge13805 ай бұрын

    The Summer of '93 was when I read this story. 30 years has passed, and I only recalled the title. The welling up and burning of my eyes, upon the tale's conclusion, remains the constant. But in the intervening decades, DNA testing has become common and so often exonerated innocent lives falsely imprisoned for scores of years and even executed, that a shudder of dread fills me now, as it did not when I was so much younger.

  • @MGTOW222

    @MGTOW222

    4 ай бұрын

    Sounds like you need to confess. Offer your Sin at Foot of the Cross and maybe the Lord will accept it. Pray

  • @jeffwillis2864

    @jeffwillis2864

    4 ай бұрын

    It is sad that a life can go unfulfilled.

  • @drivebyquipper

    @drivebyquipper

    3 ай бұрын

    Sometimes, I wonder if DNA testing is as accurate as we believe. One day, we may find out that it isn't.

  • @Wrz2e
    @Wrz2e5 ай бұрын

    Tolstoy never was one for happy endings.

  • @natalieanderson308

    @natalieanderson308

    5 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @KOOLBadger

    @KOOLBadger

    4 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂❤😂😂

  • @KOOLBadger

    @KOOLBadger

    4 ай бұрын

    Ever read 'The Death of Ivan Iilych" thats a real sad one..😂 not kidding..😂

  • @Wrz2e

    @Wrz2e

    4 ай бұрын

    @@KOOLBadger I feel like there's a spoiler in the title! Haha

  • @drivebyquipper
    @drivebyquipper3 ай бұрын

    I was an English major. We had lots of literature classes. Leo Tolstoi and Bernard Malamud are my favorite Russian authors. Boris Pasternak, not so much. I'm a Florida boy, and that trek across Siberia almost killed me. Lol! Just kidding. I love your channel! I listen while I work and rest.

  • @catherinemelnyk
    @catherinemelnyk3 ай бұрын

    A very powerful story. Far more people on this suffer similar experiences to Axionov. It might be a prison due to childhood physical or sexual abuse. Or numourous other reasons. Not all prisons have bars. Often they are emotional/psychological. In the end, we must pray to God to release us from our prison. In real life it's often the case that the person who causes the pain is no longer alive. Often we create our own prisons by unforgiveness. It's an oft repeated theme. Thank you for a very moving story.

  • @agneshouessou9765

    @agneshouessou9765

    Ай бұрын

    😢👍 "Not all prisons have bars." A terrible marriage is one, but thank God, He can use even that for our salvation if we let Him!❤✝️🛐💒🙏😇

  • @JaefarSABNW
    @JaefarSABNW5 ай бұрын

    We think that framing is harder to do, but we can't expect modern technology to be used. God's will is our choice.

  • @anamarx818
    @anamarx8184 ай бұрын

    Great story!

  • @helenanovak725
    @helenanovak7253 ай бұрын

    Thank you for producing and uploading this. I very much enjoy your uploads.

  • @TheBestRussianLiterature
    @TheBestRussianLiterature3 ай бұрын

    Thank you for translating the book

  • @ripme6616
    @ripme66165 ай бұрын

    Many call few choose

  • @user-bv1dg9su3t
    @user-bv1dg9su3t3 ай бұрын

    Amen

  • @user-ic9yw2qw9s
    @user-ic9yw2qw9s4 ай бұрын

    So glad to hear “god” waits while someone people suffer to know why they were brought into a suffering thats been manufactured and exploited.. I was a normal guy once, had some issues but nothing horrible. I’m a weak broken addict now who lost all he’s worked for and loved and has to spend the rest of his sad life asking why god, why me.. but I’ve come to learn this world is run by evil and god just…waits and watches huh… what a curse to born into a world where such things happen to people who want nothing to do with evil or corruption.. I don’t have hope anymore and I’ve recently learned about the roles of sadistic narcissist and their families.. seems like this is something I’ve been brought into …. That for some reason my life has turned completely upside down for reasons I know nothing about.. god , if god exists god doesn’t see me or my sufferings.

  • @jodyel

    @jodyel

    4 ай бұрын

    Oh, He definitely sees you and your suffering and is waiting for you to turn to Him. No better friends can you have than Christ Jesus, God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit. All are working thru your suffering to bring you to salvation. Just call on the name of Jesus and be saved. You may not be delivered out of your suffering immediately, but from that moment on you will have a friend that sticks closer than a brother. Don't despair and don't give up. God is just waiting for you to turn to Him. God love you, brother.

  • @gretacoe2188

    @gretacoe2188

    4 ай бұрын

    You are a child of God. God, the Father loves you. He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus into the world to redeem the all His children from a lifetime of sinful choices. Jesus was the true light to give light to everyone who desires it. Jesus died to save souls from eternal separation from God the Father. He was truly innocent yet God allowed His Son to be tortured in every physical and psychological way, so that no human could say Jesus does not understand the pain of injustice and cruelty. He died, descended to the dead, rose on the third day, and ascended into heaven 40 days later. Jesus came and since then He had offered nothing but love and mercy to each human being. All one has to do is accept it and follow Him on their unique path to heaven. He will come again, to judge each person according to justice. His mother Mary, the first follower of Jesus formed Jesus’ followers to spread the good news. Dear child of God, God understands your humanity. He loves you in all of your imperfection. He loves you with all of the scars and marks you carry as the result of your flaws and mistakes. They mean nothing to Him in the sense that He did not make you to be perfect. He made you to overcome your weaknesses, and, utilizing your free will - to choose. God is present and He loves you. He has given you a pure Mother, Mary, the Mother of all God’s children. Call on her in prayer, and she will lead you out of darkness to Jesus, the Light of the world.

  • @kensmith9118

    @kensmith9118

    3 ай бұрын

    Don’t call on Mary. She was just a sinful servant of God like all other believers. Jesus is 100 percent human and 100 percent God. That’s why He is the perfect sacrificial lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. Mary is not the Savior, and she was not sinless. Her own Son, Jesus, was her Savior-just as He is the Savior of all believing sinners. Pray to Jesus Christ Himself. Only He can forgive your sins and only He can save you. We don’t need to confess our sins to and ask forgiveness of sins by a priest or any other human being. Only Jesus, God’s only begotten Son can forgive sins and give eternal life with God in a heaven. Don’t be misled by the Roman Catholic Church’s false teachings.

  • @jodyel

    @jodyel

    3 ай бұрын

    @@kensmith9118Exactly. Thanks for giving that correction.

  • @trilbywilby7826

    @trilbywilby7826

    2 ай бұрын

    I'm sorry for your suffering. I can feel the pain in your words. Your questions and doubts are valid. They have been asked even by biblical prophets and kings. I would encourage you to focus on just one thing right now - don't give up on yourself or on God. Yes, the world is full of evil, such extreme evil that if we had to see it and know about it all, it would destroy us. But God is patient. To the repentant, He gives forgiveness, but to the unrepentant - well, in the words of Paul the Apostle, "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." The same man also wrote, "what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory God will give us later... although now we groan to be released from pain and suffering, we, too, wait anxiously for that day... We are saved by trusting. And trusting means looking forward to getting something we don’t yet have-for a man who already has something doesn’t need to hope and trust that he will get it. But if we must keep trusting God for something that hasn’t happened yet, it teaches us to wait patiently and confidently." - - Hold on. Hold tight. He *is* coming! 🙏

  • @janetbaggi-biotelli9352
    @janetbaggi-biotelli93525 ай бұрын

    Beautifully read. Who is the voice actor?

  • @truthisanabsolute

    @truthisanabsolute

    4 ай бұрын

    AI

  • @brianwaloweek6770

    @brianwaloweek6770

    3 ай бұрын

    Hal 9000

  • @louisepriday5812

    @louisepriday5812

    3 ай бұрын

    I started off thinking it was beautifully read, but the AI does glitch quite a bit on all these stories. It can never fully replace a proper human voiceover actor, but it's the next best thing.

  • @ReadingChekhov-ms8hh
    @ReadingChekhov-ms8hh2 ай бұрын

    Do you write ur own image prompts?

  • @sanayalove9194
    @sanayalove9194Ай бұрын

    This is truly fcked up. There is no justice in the world.

  • @ThomasAllan-up4td
    @ThomasAllan-up4td4 ай бұрын

    How does Tolstoy know what God thinks and does?

  • @Julian-mg4lf

    @Julian-mg4lf

    3 ай бұрын

    Hey, that is a good question you have. I can tell you from my own experience that God loves to show us His ways and he loves to bless and love and heal us. His arms are always open 🙂

  • @ThomasAllan-up4td

    @ThomasAllan-up4td

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Julian-mg4lf sounds good to me . And good is just an extension of the word... God.

  • @ThomasAllan-up4td

    @ThomasAllan-up4td

    3 ай бұрын

    Tolstoy knew nothing and still remains in that state He went Insane . No historian will argue with that. You can observe his decline in his life and writings. He was getting madder by the day.. There comes a point, when you must cut off from a genius in decline .

  • @janel342

    @janel342

    3 ай бұрын

    Thomas Allen Because he’s Tolstoy- one of the greatest literary talents and insightful minds the world has ever had.

  • @janel342

    @janel342

    3 ай бұрын

    @@ThomasAllan-up4td You might find ‘I am’ by English Poet John Clare interesting? He ended up in an asylum for the insane. And a book, ‘Strong Imagination’ about the knife edge that exceptionally talented people walk between sanity and insanity. If all thought like your last remark, mentally ill people would still be chained up in rat infested dungeons. Mental illness is frightening and alienating. God bless those who care with kindness for those who are deranged.

  • @jillb7402
    @jillb74024 ай бұрын

    Akzionov was already free.

  • @pangushengong1133
    @pangushengong11333 ай бұрын

    Good story! Way too many stupid ads

  • @michaelwargo5702
    @michaelwargo57023 ай бұрын

    Sad ...

  • @MrRatherino
    @MrRatherino5 ай бұрын

    wretched

  • @uiPublic
    @uiPublic5 ай бұрын

    "Man sees falsity only to sense it instantly as if it's open secret for a sinful nature inheres, ifn't laws are broken and to be felt? But anyhow hard hearted also softens when heard the Good news it's not the real intention nor genetic makeup of Soul's!

  • @virgilioblanco
    @virgilioblanco2 ай бұрын

    "GOD SEES THE TRUTH"!!!? A turn off of turn offs, talking about GOD as if HE something APART from HIS CREATION. Those millenials of manipulation of ALL related to HIM now have deep permanent roots, making Philosophers, Scholars, Gurus and the likes nothing more than sofisticated ignorants.

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