“Certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the kind of thing the universe is and the kind of things we are.”
(C. S. Lewis in Abolition of Man)
My college roommate, the esteemed and Rev. Jim Reed, occasionally chided me along lines like this: “Randy, you are far too black and white in your thinking – there is far more gray than you are willing to allow.” Being, well, “black and white in my thinking” More...
I am reading Tozer’s The Pursuit of God. My mouth is stopped as is, almost, my word processor. How very sterile that sounds — "word processor" — as indeed it is. Our need is for the living Word. I give these lines from the book (near end of ch. 5) for your perusal, suggesting only that Tozer, throughout this small book, was on to something known by all the greats and we impoverish our souls if we neglect the message.
More...In the Christian prayer, we ask of God. And surely this is central, for what good father does not delight in hearing and meeting the needs of his children? We hear much reminding about the need to praise and give thanks and confess and commune and on and on. All true — I know it by text and by practice. And I also know how prone I am to just asking.
More...7:22 “Lord, let me lose everything that I may gain Christ.” A Scriptural prayer? Surely it is — “counting all things but loss…”. So said St. Paul…
More...This poem from C. S. Lewis is so good; thoughtful, wise, a profoundly correct perspective on the mystery, beauty, and difficulty we call prayer. I hope you will read a time or two and think about the great distance between ourselves and the LORD, and the way He, nonetheless, so mercifully and lovingly enables us to know him . At best, we scarcely know Him; but with Him, that is enough.
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