Total collapse of Ego and Clinging to God and His Power is ANSWER-HUMILITY

Total collapse of Ego and Clinging to God and His Power is ANSWER-HUMILITY

Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it’ (Ps. 126:1). However spiritual and holy a man may be, he cannot regard himself as absolutely secure. 

The Angels themselves, enriched with sanctity, were not safe in Paradise. 

Man, endowed with innocence, was not safe in his earthly paradise. 

What safety, therefore, can there be for us with our corrupt nature, amid so many perils and so many enemies who within and without are ever seeking insidiously to undermine our own eternal salvation? 

In order to be eternally damned, it is enough that I should follow the dictates of nature; but to be saved, it is necessary that divine grace should prevent (go before) and accompany me, should follow and help me, watch over me and never abandon me. 

Oh, how right therefore was St. Paul in exhorting us to ‘work out our salvation’—which is for all eternity—’with fear and trembling’ (Phil. 2:12).”

—Fr. Cajetan da Bergamo

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Most conversion experiences, whatever their variety, do have a common denominator of ego collapse at depth. The individual faces an impossible dilemma.

The enlightened person realizes he leads a double life. He is very much the actor. To the outer world he presents his stage character. This is the one he likes his fellows to see. He wants to enjoy a certain reputation, but knows in his heart he doesn't deserve it.

This conversion belief takes us off the center of the universe and allows us to transfer our problems to God and His power outside of ourselves. We turn to this Power for the strength we need to stop sinning and become holy. We put our problems in God's hands and leave it there. We stop trying to run our own life and seek to let God run it for us.