God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains

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Today's Reading

The human spirit will not even begin to try and surrender self-will /as long as all seem to be well with it.

* As long as or so long as also means 'provided that', 'providing that' or 'on condition that'

Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence;

they are masked evil.

Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil;

every man knows that something is wrong /when he is being hurt…

And pain is not only immediately recognizable evil, but evil impossible to ignore.

We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities;

and [anyone //who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods

/as if they did not know what they were eating], will admit that we can ignore even pleasure.

But pain insists upon [being attended to].

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains:

it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

From The Problem of Pain
Compiled in The Business of Heaven

The Problem of Pain. Copyright © 1940, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright restored © 1996 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. The Business of Heaven. Editing of this collection and preface by Walter Hooper. Copyright © 1984 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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