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Box of god10/4/2023 Yes, I too am thankful Lewis affixed his own name to “A Grief Observed”.Īnd for me, grief is all about having my beliefs challenged and even shattered. Lewis, my Facebook posts would have been flooded with admonitions and reproofs as godly friends and loved ones scrambled to correct my heretical thinking. I remember thinking as I shared some of his thoughts, that had the quote not been attributed to the great C.S. Only a pillar of the faith could have said those things and had them received and pondered. Lewis said some very controversial things in that book like the quote above about his fear, not of losing his faith, but of learning such dreadful things about God. Lewis was pressured to publish “A Grief Observed” under a pseudonym, but his words – so many quotes from that small missive – resonate within and like a giant “Me too!” for me. Only my ideas of Him could be contained in so small a space. God has broken out of my box– He was never really in it to begin with. Certainly this house that I built cannot contain you either.” “But, God, will you really live here with us on the earth? The whole sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you. What do people mean when they say, ‘I am not afraid of God because I know He is good’? Have they never even been to a dentist?”Īt the dedication of the Temple, Solomon prayed: My box for God included room for some pain and suffering -but definitely not enough space for Him to to allow the death of my child and plunge me into this abyss of grief and sorrow. I had decided that God acted in certain ways, that prayers guaranteed certain results and that my life as a believer in Christ was destined to be one of favor and blessing because I was honoring Him. Like Lewis, I’ve discovered that I had ideas about God, but that they were not necessarily true: “My idea of God is not a divine idea. I’ve had to pull out all my theological assumptions and compare what I thought I knew to what is in the Bible and what I have experienced in life. Grief has forced me to reexamine every notion I had of God and how He works in the world. The conclusion I dread is not ‘So there’s no God after all,’ but ‘So this is what God’s really like. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. It brings me great comfort to know that one who was much more equipped to face a faith crisis found himself floundering in the ocean called sorrow and grief.īut he, like me, wasn’t sure he wanted to climb back in. His publishers and some of his close friends didn’t want people to know that this giant of the Christian faith, this celebrated apologist for believing Christ was shaken to the core by the death of his beloved bride. What many may not know is that he was pressured to publish it under a pseudonym. ![]() Lewis shared his grief journey after losing his wife in the book, A Grief Observed. I could quote verses for every occasion, open my Bible to any book without looking in the Table of Contents, and had something sprirtual to say about everything.Ĭ.S. I thought that after decades of walking with Jesus, reading and studying Scripture and wading through some fairly significant trials I had God pretty well figured out. It’s possible that you haven’t thought of it this way, but if you are a believer in Christ and have yet to walk through faith-shattering trials, you may have placed God in a box. ![]() Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964) I never dreamed…’ I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, ‘It reminds me of straw.’ The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking ‘But I never knew before. You will receive a RANDOM MIX of these items (1-20 items in each bag/box)Every idea of we form, He must in mercy shatter. It can include graded cards of all sorts, & rare vintage cards from early Wizards of the Coast (1998-2002) sets and more! YOUR BOX MAY INCLUDE, BUT IN NO WAY IS GUARANTEED OLDER SETS SUCH AS: There are BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED items from the following sets. You may receive PSA or CGC graded card(s) ranging from $15 - $100 in value. We have put together a wide array of our vast inventory to create a plethora of different products from different sets, along with other great items such as special cards, card accessories, and much more!
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