What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could “be like gods”—could set up on their own as if they had created themselves—be their own masters—invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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
Indeed, we are Gods; not so we can live in false separation, but in unity with God and each other. Hell is the illusion of separation from God. We can not be happy apart from God because we can not be separated from God. We can only delude ourselves that we are separate. When we try to eliminate God from our lives or we fail to recognize God, we simply blind ourselves to the truth and stumble in the dark.
To live in joy, rise above hurt and exist in peace, we must accept and live in God. That is where we find Eden, heaven and the real us.
Being one,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 