C.S. Lewis is definetly one of my favorite authors. Here are some things to chew on from
A Grief Observed
"Images, whether on paper or in the mind, are not important for themselves. Merely links. Take a parallel from an infinitely higher sphere. Tomorrow morning a priest will give me a little round, thin, cold, tasteless wafer. Is it a disadvantage - is it not in some ways an advantage - that it can't pretend the least
resemblance to that with which it unites me? I need Christ, not something that resembles Him... Images, I must suppose, have their use or they would not have been so popular. To me, however, their danger is more obvious... my idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence?"
I love how C.S. Lewis takes such abstract thoughts and and pulls them onto paper. After reading some of the thoughts he spoke of, I kept thinking, "Yes! I know exactly what he means, I could never have explained it so eloquently, though."
It's almost a little like Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis. The ideas that we have of God and who He is - where are they grounded? Are the images I have of God inventions of this culture and my personal feelings? Or are they grounded in the Bible, in truth?
My God is not
mine. He transcends all humanity, and thus He is not changeable to one person's experience.
God is constant.
I can stick as many labels on Him as I want.
I can define him to be weak, strong, or "not there".
I can also call the sky green. But it doesn't make it true.
Because God, because his son Jesus Christ, are not confined to humanity's limited views.
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from today's reading [isaiah 40]:
"to whom, then, will you compare God? what image will you compare him to?" [vs.1]
"to whom will you compare me? or who is my equal? says the Holy One. lift your eyes and look to the heavens: who created all these? he who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them by name. because of his great power and mighty strengh, not one of them is missing." [vs.25-26]