What is the inner ascent that we are called to do?
This sometimes resembles something like an uncertain and difficult path towards an unattainable goal. Most of us can not even imagine what it must see and feel the presence of God operating in us through all the members of our body.
When we embark on the path joining the Orthodox Orthodox lifestyle, we are motivated with a strong desire, a great zeal to overcome our blindness and become fully united with God, to share his glorious light. Initially, we had a glimpse of that more perfect union with God. But it was enough to set fire to our soul, motivating us to change our way of being with God's help, in the Church. We realized that we needed to take action on our own lifestyle to get rid of sin we've had more and more acutely aware. We fought and fought. We found that the nature of the track.
Saint Theophanes tells us that this inner ascent leads us to the "revelation and the emergence in our consciousness of the work of God in us. " This is not something that our work and hello purification, "he said.
" The Zealot is lighted on this reality through frequent failures despite all his efforts, and nice encountered unexpected success without special effort. Errors and falls are particularly illuminating in depriving us of grace. All these deficiencies lead a man of thought and the belief that nothing, then God and his almighty grace are all about. "
This is the final destination, the realization that we are" nothing "because Saint Theophanes says:
" It is not possible to unless the person reaches feel it is nothing. "
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