tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post9060717917116533626..comments2024-02-17T22:22:55.784-06:00Comments on Jenny Hope: Thanksgiving musings. Are we compromising truth? Is the gospel being proclaimed or are we as Christians growing tolerant from fear of man? Is it really loving to compromise truth? Fear of man will prove to be a snare. jennyhopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17549550675852269948noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-45300690359965237592012-11-23T22:24:16.400-06:002012-11-23T22:24:16.400-06:00appreciate your zeal and love. I read this CS Lew...appreciate your zeal and love. I read this CS Lewis quote in a RGB (really good book..)called "Relationships,A Mess Worth Making." I thought you would like it. Praying for you and yours today.<br /><br />"...we must not be surprised if we are in for a rough time. When a man turns to Christ and seems to be getting on pretty well (in the sense that some of his bad habits are now corrected), he often feels that it would now be natural if things went fairly smoothly. when troubles come along - illnesses, money troubles, new kinds of tempations - he is disappointed. These things, he feels, might have been necessary to rouse him and make him repent in his bad old days; but why now? Because God is forcing him on, or up, to a higher level: putting him in situations where he will have to be very much braver, or more patient, or more loving, than he ever dreamed of being before. It seems to us all unnecessary: but that is because we have not yet had the slightest notion of the tremendous thing He means to make of us.<br /><br /><br />I find I must borrow yet another parable from George MacDonald. Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing up a wall here and a new wing there, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, creating courtyards. You thought you were going to be a decent little cottage. But he is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself." ~C.S. Lewis<br />(Mere Christianity) (which I've never read, am thinking it needs to go on my list...)Doulosnoreply@blogger.com