![]() We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. Here’s “We are far too easily pleased” in its native surroundings, from the opening salvo of Lewis’s remarkable sermon “The Weight of Glory”: ![]() It’s only a six-word sentence - but the context’s essential, no doubt. It was only a few pages into the book - if it hadn’t been near the front, I may never have found it - when John Piper uncorked this revolutionary little claim from C.S. I emphatically did not enjoy reading and had made my way through high school and my first year of college leaning heavily on Cliff’s Notes. An older student, who was leading a Bible study on my freshman hall, picked Desiring God as our semester focus. Especially when it’s a short one.įor me, it was the spring of 2000 - perhaps you have your own story about being rocked by this shorty from Lewis. When one proposition proves potent enough to be life-changing for the better. ![]() It’s a beautiful thing when a single sentence reorients a soul for good. ![]()
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