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 Publishing House
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