Today's promise: God will live among us
with great joy
Have you known joy even
in the midst of trouble?
We know that the same
God who raised our Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us to
himself along with you. All of these things are for your benefit. And as God's
grace brings more and more people to Christ, there will be great thanksgiving,
and God will receive more and more glory. That is why we never give up. Though
our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.… For the
troubles we see will soon be over, but the joys to come will last forever.
2 Corinthians 4:14-18 NLT
Too easily pleased
If there lurks in most
modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for
the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from
Kant and the Stoics and is not part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we
consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the
rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires,
not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with
drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant
child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine
what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily
pleased.
C. S. Lewis in
The Weight of Glory
Quoted in The Quotable Lewis edited by Wayne Martindale
and Jerry Root (Tyndale House) p 352
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
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