“We feel we must be continually thanking God because your faith is growing so wonderfully and the love that you have for Him never stops increasing” (II Thessalonians 1:3).
Describing the “Good Life” as he felt it from within, in very picturesque language, C.S. Lewis wrote: “We really do not have the slightest notion of the tremendous thing Jesus Christ means to make of us. Imagine yourself living in a house …
God comes in to re-build that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He’s doing. He’s getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on. You knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking down the house in a way that hurts abominably and which doesn’t 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 out a…
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