Thursday, August 19, 2021

An ordinary, simple act...? C.S. Lewis

What I mean is this: An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get in touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God---God, so to speak, inside him. But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God--that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for him.

You see what is happening. God is the thing to which he is praying--the goal he is trying to reach. God is also the thing inside him which is pushing him. God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal. So the three-fold life of the three-personal Being is actually there in that ordinary little bedroom where an ordinary man is saying his prayers.

C. S. Lewis, The Business of Heaven


Outside of the incarnation itself, this must be the most incredible fact of our Christian life.

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