Re - thinking Diet - Solution #12 - C S Lewis - Seek enjoyment!

The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself.


We are told to deny ourselves and to take up our crosses in order that we may follow Christ; and nearly every every description of what we shall ultimately find if we do so contains an appeal to desire.

If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit this notion...

that is no part of the Christian faith.

Indeed 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 find 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, The Weight of Glory


Still making mud pies? God's provision is so much better!