Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Tremendous in the Making

This past week or so i have been overwhelmed with peace. Not much has changed and crazy stuff continues daily; but God has answered my prayer for peace. And He did it His way [cue Sinatra]. I did nothing to 'accomplish' said peace, nor do i understand it, but man am i enjoying it! I am certain it came from Christ and i guess that is all i really need to know.

That is all i've got right now, so to explain more about what we don't know, here is C.S. Lewis (btw: I totally copy/pasted this quote from Scott's Blog).

C.S. Lewis:

"That is why we must not be surprised if we are in for a rough time. When a man turns to Christ and seems to be getting on pretty well (in the sense that some of his bad habits are now corrected), he often feels that it would now be natural if things went fairly smoothly. When troubles come along - illnesses, money troubles, new kinds of temptation - he is dissapointed. These things, he feels, might have been necessary to rouse him and make him repent in his bad old days; but why now? Because God is forcing him on, or up, to a higher level: putting him in situations where he will have to be very much braver, or more patient, or more loving, than he ever dreamed of being before. It seems to us all unnecesarry: but that is because we have not yet had the slightest notion of the tremendous thing He means to make of us."

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