Why now? Having some rough times now?
Sometimes things go nice and smoothly and you soar long with the wind beneath your wings! Then troubles come -- often in multiples! Illnesses, family conflicts, tragedies, money problems...and you ask "Why me? Why now" and "What am I doing wrong?"
Wrong questions!
When we go through these times, C S Lewis reminds us that God is at work inside us -- forcing us up to a higher level, putting us in situations where we will have to be very much braver, or more patient, or more loving, forgiving, obedient, more trusting than we have ever dreamed of being before.
'It seems to us all unnecessary. But that is because we have not yet had the slightest notion of the tremendous thing He means to make of us!'
We thought He wanted to change some of our habits and make us more pleasant and easier for people to be around.
No! He wants to make us images of His Son! Like a pony who wants to be able to jump a small fence or pull a cart...But God wants him to be a Pegasus -- a flying horse! A winged creature that can fly over the rainbows and throughout the universe!
God has a bigger plan for us. He wants to make us like Jesus!
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