C.S. Lewis had the Right Words

Terry DashnerC. S. had the Right WordsC.S. Lewis (1898-1963) is undoubtedly the most widely way in and best known Christian author of the Twentieth Century. Several years ago a movie entitled, Shadowl...

Terry Dashner

C. S. had the Right Words

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) is undoubtedly the most widely entre and best known Christian author of the Twentieth Century. Several years ago a movie entitled, Shadowlands, starring Anthony Hopkins was produced nearly the excitement of Lewis. Its now on video and without difficulty worth the era for viewing. One situation remarkable about Lewis writing completion was his range. He could write books to stump the most hardened agnostic, but he could furthermore write childrens books (Chronicles of Narnia) that nevertheless melody in the publicize places.

When I was a pubescent student at Oklahoma Baptist college circles in Shawnee, OK many years ago, I took a course in Lewis theology. It was at that time my taste for Lewis material developed. One of my favorite books is Mere Christianity. I desire to make more noticeable some lines in his wedding album that are widely get into by theology students everywhere. Lewis states: I am grating here to prevent anyone maxim the in reality foolish issue that people often tell approximately Him: Im ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I dont take His allegation to be God. That is the one situation we must not say. A man who is merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a good moral teacher. He would either be a lunaticon the level afterward the man who says he is a poached eggor else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him taking place for a fool, you can spit at Him and execute Him as a demon; or you can drop at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not arrive in imitation of any patronizing nonsense very nearly His instinctive a good human teacher. He has not left that edit to us. He did not try to. (Mere Christianity [New York: Touchstone, 1996] 56.)

While Im upon the topic, what do you say roughly Jesus? Who was He? Some tell that He was a myth, perpetuated through chronicles by shallow minds. Some say that He was deserted a historical person. He did some great things for His fellowman, but thats it. Some say that He was then, and His teachings are now, offensive. No one likes instinctive called a directionless sinner. But, subsequently again, some of us tell that He is Jesus the Christ, the forlorn Begotten Son of God, Savior and Lord, and He is worth savoring. The Bible says that Jesus was Gods glory revealed physically. Men and women in the grow old of Jesus axiom bearing in mind their own eyes the agreed glory of God the daddy standing since themWow!

Today we cant look Jesus physically, but we can look Him as soon as the eyes of our heart. We have two sets of eyesone set is physical, and the additional set is spiritual. The spiritual eyes of our heart are very, very important to spiritual survival. Why? Sometimes our creature eyes focus upon the created thing and fails to tell the spiritual eyes to question extra for realizable deception. For example, many grow old in the outdated Testament the people of Israel would perspective away from the invisible God of heaven and focus their beast eyes on man-made idols of wood or rock and call that thing their god. We must have our spiritual eyes right of entry always to the one and legitimate God of heaven, resisting the temptation to make gods out of things and even ourselves (Humanism). Yes, the Bible says that we are to promenade by faith and not by (physical) sight. listen me please. Faith is not blind. We dont blindly leap into a realm that is suspicious and unreasonable. We look the Word of God in the past us, and our eyes of faith stay focused on the promises until they become reality.

What just about savoring Jesus? attain you? Pastor John Piper says that gone you see something as authentic and pretty and valuable, you trace it. That is, you adore it. You treasure and venerate and prize it. Spiritual seeing and spiritual savoring are so closely connected that it would be fair to say: If you dont smack Christ, you havent seen Christ for who He is. If you dont prize him above all things, you havent apprehended his authentic worth.