"... There's something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it that makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefore, when it falls, a fiercer devil.
... But someone must say in general what's been unsaid among you this many a year: that love, as mortals understand the word, isn't enough. Every natural love will rise again and live for ever in this country [i.e., heaven]: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
... There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. And the higher and mightier it is in the natural order, the more demoniac it will be if it rebels. It's not out of bad mice or bad fleas that you make demons, but out of bad archangels."
C.S. Lewis, from The Great Divorce.
I'm heading out to B.C. tonight to spend some time with my father and step-mother. The doctors are not giving her much time to live, two months at the outside. Please keep them in prayer. I may not have internet access at my father's place, so I don't know when I'll be able to post again.
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Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall - Proverbs 16:18
ReplyDeleteThanks for this Andy, it has intrigued a train of thought on which I will reflect upon.
Kellie Ann
One more thing I'd like to add, a book I read said everyone at one point in their lives will experience a "Fall From Grace", but it is our reaction to the "Fall" that determines the true nature of our soul. Like gold tested in fire...
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