The Great Divorce
"There are only two kind of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened."
-C.S. Lewis "The Great Divorce"
-C.S. Lewis "The Great Divorce"
posted by Bronwyn at 5:53 pm
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While I know everyone has good and bad days, I often wonder whether, when all is accounted for, whether my faith isn't just a selfish safety net and that actually, at the level that really matters, I'm in the second camp. As the song goes, "it's so easy when with friends and bright lights, than much later alone in your room".
It's so easy to say 'Thy will be done' when things are going your way, life is comfortable, and you can see where you're going. It's much harder when things aren't going well, you're hurting & bruised, you have no idea what God is doing and you can't see the wood for the trees.
I definitely hear you.
Too many times I find myself coming back to the conversation Jesus had with Peter at the end of John 6 after he had been teaching some particularly difficult stuff and many people choose to walk away...
J: Will you leave me too then?
P: To whom else will we go? you have the words of eternal life.
Not always the answer I want, but somehow - I suppose those in the "Thy will be done" camp have to keep coming back to that....
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