C S Lewis

Some people think he is hard to read and all his books seem text booky.  I guess, because my first to read was SCREWTAPE LETTERS, that I saw his humor,  great deduction of and possible ways of looking at all the various philosophies and worldly ways hitting us every day, it was easy for him to be one of my favorite of all Christian authors.

I am reading THE BUSINESS OF HEAVEN right now and as always I am fascinated by his take on thinking ways of man.  Lewis told of an old man who said he had no need of religion per se for he knew there was a God.  He had "felt" him alone in the desert at night.  Lewis' retort was "Now in a sense I quite agreed with that man."  He went on to say he believed he probably had an encounter with God.  But Lewis went on to expound on how we can "feel" something as we stand at the ocean's edge, and when we look at a map or book of pictures of it, we certainly will "feel" less.

The fun of Lewis is he goes on and leads us further into it.  A navigational chart or the "theology" of the ocean put in a book or an Atlas may not cause the same feeling as being at the ocean's edge with the water washing over our feet.  But if we ever want that ocean to take us somewhere we are going to need the map.

I almost cry every time I read Romans 1 when it tells of the creation of God and how He meant it to reveal HIMSELF to us.  And then the verse that almost causes me to weep, Romans 1:20 "...they will be without excuse..."  As simple as that - you may believe in God - the devils believe and tremble but if we do not desire to learn and grow more knowledgeable of Him in a church or the Bible or prayer or fellowship with other Christians more mature who can lead us forward into it, then we do or know nothing more.  It is just NOT enough. C.S Lewis is great at making us think!