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 around 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 the slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by an offer of a holiday at sea. We are far to easily pleased.
8.01.2008
We Are Far Too Easily Pleased
One of my favorite C. S. Lewis quotes:
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It's one of my favorites too...so easy to live like that ignorant child but so un TRUE! Blessings, Matt, we pray for you often!
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