Too many of us have had friends or family members who have suffered the cost of crippling addictions. We have watched helplessly as people we love destroy their marriages, their potential and their health and nearly every relationship and good thing in their lives by the enslavement of their passions for drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling, fame, FaceBook “likes” and self-expression in a grandiose pursuit of absolute freedom. We hug the things that are passing away in death thinking that they offer us life only to be disappointed in the end because they cannot deliver.
I was thinking about this harsh reality the other day when I ran into this quote from C.S. Lewis.
“When we try to keep within us an area that is our own, we try to keep an area of death.”
C.S. Lewis in the essay,
“A Slip of the Tongue”
in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, p. 130-31
Yes. I think Lewis is right. God, who is light and life, has made us for Himself and the greatest freedom and greatest joys are only experienced in a right relationship with Him.
God is most glorified when we are most satisfied not in ourselves but in Him. (Cf. any book John Piper has written)
Let’s peel our fingers off of temporal things so that we can truly embrace the life of God.
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