Why All This Now?
Sometimes a Christian experiences life going along pretty well.
Then complications and troubles come along: illnesses, money problems, family crises, new kinds of temptations, etc. and he gets disappointed -- why all of this now? All at once? he might ask. ...Just when things were going so good!
This is what C S Lewis says:
"Because God is forcing him on, or up, to a higher level: putting him into situations where he will have to be very much braver, or more patient, or more loving than he ever dreamed before.
It seems to us all unnecessary, but that is because we have not the slightest notion of the tremendous thing He means to make of us. He wants to make us into 'Christians'-- that is, 'little Christs'!
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