"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
I recently rediscovered this quote. It's taken from a sermon turned essay entitled The Weight of Glory and always blows my mind a little bit.
It's so contrary to how I think most of humanity is inclined to think of God. We think God says no to pleasure, to desire, to fun.
What's if he's actually saying yes?
What if our failure to see the yes is just a continuation of the big lie we've believed from the beginning that God doesn't love us and that he's not good?
We are content because we can't believe that God has more. We sit with what we have defined as good because we don't understand what our father said when he created the world and said, "it is good".
We're clueless.
In our completeness we find complacence...
How true a phrase that is.
It makes me eager for that day when we all, with unveiled faces, will learn what eternal joy is. We will worship with the redeemed and see Jesus face to face.
But until then, let us try to not be so easily pleased.
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