Sunday, March 28, 2010

Back to the Book, my ideas and idols are shatttered


"Images, I must suppose, have their use of they would not have been so popular. To me, however, their danger is more obvious. Images of the HOly easily become holy images-sacrosanct. 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? The Incarnation is the supreme example; it leaves all previous ideas of the Messiah in ruins. " C.S. Lewis

Thank you Clive for once again setting me straight. I have this idea of who I want God to be. I have made Him out to be someone who He isn't. I have made an idol out of God; or an idol out of the God I wanted Him to be. Back to the books, my preferred ideas are shattered by the truth.

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