Today's Reading
On humility
And that is enough /to raise
our thoughts /to what may happen /when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope
and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him //whom
she was created to please.
* she = the redeemed soul
There will be no room for vanity then.
She
will be free /from the miserable illusion //that it is her doing.
With no
taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently
rejoice /in the thing //that God has made her to be, and [the moment //which
heals her old inferiority complex /for ever] will also drown her pride
/deeper than Prospero’s book.
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
If
God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself:
“it is not for her to bandy compliments with her Sovereign.”
From The Weight of Glory
Compiled in Words to Live By
The Weight of Glory: And Other Addresses.
Copyright © 1949, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1976,
revised 1980 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with
permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.