The Will of God

Hi Everyone-

I pray God is bringing much grace and peace to your lives.  This is the last week of the school term, which brings both joy and sorrow.  I'm excited for a break, but sad that tonight is the last C.S. Lewis class.

Three of the books we read by Lewis are works of fiction dubbed The Ransom Trilogy.  The hero, Ransom, travels to Venus in the second book, Perelandra, where he meets that planet's version of Eve, called the Lady.  He helps her in her battle to resist the temptations of the devil to stray from God.  When I read it one line in particular stood out to me as pretty profound.  The Lady says, "'To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere.'"

To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere.  Think about those words, "'To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere.'"  There are layers and layers to them in my mind.  What do you think?

Here's what resonates most with me ... This is saying that God doesn't give us commands (i.e. His will) to be burdensome or painful or obligations, He tells us His will because it alone leads to life.  To not follow His will is to walk into death and destruction.  When we follow God's will we become more alive, while when we don't we are quite literally undoing (or killing) ourselves.

When I was younger, I thought all these types of things really only applied to some distant, eternal, when we go (in the future) to heaven or hell point in the future.  But, what the Lady is saying applies to now.  When we follow God's will we walk into a fuller life right now.  Conversely, when we don't, we step into oblivion right now.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts...

Grace and peace,
Lang

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