I have mentioned at least 10 times in the past six months that I have been wanting to get a good devotional to help me become more disciplined in reading the Word daily.
Well, it turns out I had a great devotional on my bookshelf all along!
I am currently reading "Readings for the Year" - the daily readings are experts taken out of different books written by C.S Lewis. I wanted to share one that really spoke to me this past week:
The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature is the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment, He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we have plenty of fun, and some ecstasy. It is not hard to see why. The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our own return to God: a few moments of happy love, a landscape, a symphony, a merry meeting with our friends, a bathe or a football match, have no such tendency. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
After reading these words, I realized that I often mistake the inns for home - or better yet, I want to make the inns become home...but the attempts are never successful.
Why not?
Because this life is temporary and home is yet to come.
Monday, May 9, 2011
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