(I’m spending the last few days of 2010 seeking the Lord’s will on what this blog should be about in 2011, so I am taking a break from writing this blog and am featuring a few of my favorite devotional writer’s instead this week for your enjoyment. If you have any insights or comments about what you like or dislike about this blog I welcome your input.)
CHOOSE NOW, CHOOSE WELL by C.S. Lewis
Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil?
Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is it that He is not strong enough?
Well, Christians think He is going to land in force; we do not know when.
But we can guess why He is delaying. He wants to give us the chance of joining His side freely.
I do not suppose you and I would have thought much of a Frenchman who waited till the Allies were marching into Germany and then announced he was on our side.
God will invade.
But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realize what it will be like when He does.
When that happens, it is the end of the world.
When the author walks on the stage the play is over.
God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else – something it never entered your head to concieve – comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left?
For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.
It will be too late then to choose your side.
There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.
That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not.
Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side.
God is holding back to give us that chance.
It will not last forever.
We must take it or leave it.
– from Mere Christianity
Oh Debbie, I just wrote I big comment and hit the wrong key and it pushed me back to previous page so all of it was gone. Now I have to write it all over again. And that could be one of the reasons some of us don’t like to comment. Sometimes these things happen. in my case, I haven’t been reading much of anything lately, since when I’m at home I find things to do and when I am at work, well you know how that goes, no time to spend extra on the blog. I don’t think there is anything wrong with your blog/diary (by the way I love your new background), it’s probably more likely that some people have less time to spend on the blog then others. Sorry, I wasn’t leaving any comments. Don’t think I forgot abut you. Love, Vlatka
No need to apologize Vlatka! I’m just trying to figure out if maybe I should write about different things or whatever. Thanks for your input. I really appreciate it!