Author: Ned
I went to my buddy Dom’s for a little summer hair cut. He’s a fellow rogue, able to dialogue about the wide and wild experiences life throws at us - the highs & lows, peaks & valleys, and even the darker issues we wrestle with. We can go from telling stories about the kids to revealing the ‘adult’ issues that haunt us.
In other words, he’s a cheap psychologist with a trim to go.
Anyways, he passed along a great quote from CS Lewis concerning the nature of the changes inside us God desires to make, and how we resist the very things that could breathe new life into our soul. I thought I’d pass it along for you to enjoy:
“Imagine turning a tin soldier into a real man. It would involve turning the tin into flesh. And suppose the tin soldier did not like it. He is not interested in flesh; all he sees is that the tin is being spoiled. He thinks you are killing him. He will do everything he can do to prevent you. He will not be made into a man if he can help it.
The real Son of God is at your side. He is beginning to turn you into the same kind of thing as Himself; He is beginning, so to speak, to ‘inject’ His kind of life and thought, his Zoe, (spiritual life) into you; beginning to turn the tin soldier into a live man. The part of you that does not like it is the part that is still tin.”
CS Lewis perfectly describes the rogue state of heart inside us.
Thanks for the quote, Dom. And no offense about the shrink joke, right?
Guess I’ll know if I walk out with a mohawk next time.
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