For God's Own Sake
Well since I'm up and on here, I might as well put something else up. It is not actually my writing up of a thought in the shower ... or anywhere else for that matter :-), but the subject seems to be rather spot on for me at the moment and I thought I'd share. It's an excerpt from C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce".
'I'm afraid the first step is a hard one,' said the Spirit. 'But after that you'll go on like a house on fire. You will become solid enough for Michael to perceive you when you learn to want Someone Else besides Michael. I don't say "more than Michael", not as a beginning. That will come later. It's only the little germ of a desire for God that we need to start the process.''Oh, you mean religion and all that sort of thing? This is hardly the moment ... and from you, of all people. Well, never mind. I'll do whatever's necessary. What do you want me to do? Come on. The sooner I begin it, the sooner they'll let me see my boy. I'm quite ready.'
'But, Pam, do think! Don't you see you are not beginning at all as long as you are in that state of mind? You're only treating God as a means to Michael. But the whole thickening treatment consists in learning to want God for His own sake.'
So that is the question for me ... and you - Am I at a place where I want God for God's sake or am I seeking Him so that maybe that way, I can get the stuff that I really want?
Grace & peace,
Deji.
