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Book: The Weight of Glory
Essay: A Slip of the Tongue
Do any of us really desire the eternal things over the temporal? Lewis believes his
slip of the tongue to be more a description of desire. He suggests that we come into
God’s presence with a hesitancy that He may just do something that makes it
inconvenient to embrace the temporal. We want His blessings of course, but the
earthly thing that He points out as the barrier to that blessing is the very thing that
competes for my affection.
But Lewis writes that “God cannot bless us unless He has us.” And so goes the
struggle of the soul; to try and keep back a portion of life that we designate as our
own. It is what Lewis calls an “area of death”.
In our hearts we want the temporal, but God wants to rid our hearts of the desire for
the temporal. It’s an exchange only He can make. He changes who I am and what I
desire. It’s a process that requires the consistent resisting and renouncing of this
wicked and grasping attitude. It happens every day. There are the opportunities at
every contour of the day to either feed this selfishness or deny it. I can’t sit back, nor
can I do it myself. Grace is always present to rebuke and restore. The choice is
clear, it will be fatal decision to allow the repeated claiming of life for my own, or the
confession and surrender each moment of this life to the Lord of my life. The tough
part of life is that it’s everyday, but we have the promise that each morning, His
mercies are new.
Essay: A Slip of the Tongue
Do any of us really desire the eternal things over the temporal? Lewis believes his
slip of the tongue to be more a description of desire. He suggests that we come into
God’s presence with a hesitancy that He may just do something that makes it
inconvenient to embrace the temporal. We want His blessings of course, but the
earthly thing that He points out as the barrier to that blessing is the very thing that
competes for my affection.
But Lewis writes that “God cannot bless us unless He has us.” And so goes the
struggle of the soul; to try and keep back a portion of life that we designate as our
own. It is what Lewis calls an “area of death”.
In our hearts we want the temporal, but God wants to rid our hearts of the desire for
the temporal. It’s an exchange only He can make. He changes who I am and what I
desire. It’s a process that requires the consistent resisting and renouncing of this
wicked and grasping attitude. It happens every day. There are the opportunities at
every contour of the day to either feed this selfishness or deny it. I can’t sit back, nor
can I do it myself. Grace is always present to rebuke and restore. The choice is
clear, it will be fatal decision to allow the repeated claiming of life for my own, or the
confession and surrender each moment of this life to the Lord of my life. The tough
part of life is that it’s everyday, but we have the promise that each morning, His
mercies are new.