This quote is from Joy Davidman, the wife of C. S. Lewis. The quote comes from her book "Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments"
"For many contemporaries God has dwindled into a noble abstraction, a tendency of history, a goal of evolution; has thinned out into a concept useful for organizing world peace--a good thing as an idea. But not the Word made flesh, who died for us and rose again from the dead. Not a Personality that a man can feel any love for. And not, certainly, the eternal Lover who took the initiative and fell in love with us. Is it shocking to think of God as a pursuing lover? Then Christianity is shocking. If we accept the supernatural only as something too weak and passive to interfere with the natural, we hab best call ourselves materialists and be done with it--we shall gain in honesty what we lose in respectability."
I hope this gives you something to ponder today. Never let God become some abstract idea that plays no part in our lives!
Grace and Peace
P. S. Next week, I am going to try to explain why I will not refer to myself as a member of the Restoration movement even though I have attended these churches my entire life.
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