If there is any current trend in my life that I would be so eager to share, it would be that recently, I am starting to discover ultimate satisfaction in God, and that He fulfills my desires in ways that nothing else can. Events like Secret Church have only revealed this further and accelerated this change. And here is something C.S. Lewis wrote a long time ago that I can't help but think God showed to me when He did (during the Secret Church event) to further hit the hammer home. Reflect on what Lewis says and how it applies to your own life:
- C.S. Lewis, "The Weight of Glory ""If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that out Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far to easily pleased.
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