I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Everyone there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.
From Mere Christianity
Compiled in Words to Live By
Compiled in Words to Live By
Mere Christianity. Copyright © 1952, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1980, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Think about that! They are too busy looking at the source from which goodness comes. That is our great challenge; to focus on God instead of ourselves and our reactions to God. First we must come to God and then must make God the focus upon which we concentrate. “Come to me, ye who are weary and heavy burdened, and I will give you rest”. This does not say a word about our personal morality or guilt. It says to focus on God and turn to God for our peace and for our goodness.
Turning to God,
Z gardener
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