Those Divine demands //which sound to our natural ears most like those
of a despot and least like those of a lover, in fact marshal us /where we
should want to go /if we knew what we wanted.
* marshal ; place in proper rank
He demands our worship,
our obedience, our prostration.
Do we suppose that they can do Him any
good, or fear,
like the chorus in Milton, that human irreverence can
bring about ‘His glory’s diminution’?
* they = our worship,
our obedience, our prostration
* Diminution definition, the act, fact, or process of diminishing
* Irreverence definition is - lack of reverence.
A man can no more diminish God’s
glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by
scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
But God wills
our good, and our good is to love Him (with that responsive love proper
to creatures)
and to love Him we must know Him: and if we know Him, we
shall in fact fall on our faces.
* 후치수식 형용사구 proper
to creatures
proper 형; correct according to social or moral rules
If we do not, that only shows that [what
we are trying to love] is not yet God
— though it may be the nearest
approximation to God //which our thought and fantasy can attain.
Yet the
call is not only to prostration and awe; it is to a reflection of the
Divine life,
a creaturely participation in the Divine attributes //which
is far beyond our present desires.
We are bidden to ‘put on Christ’, to
become like God.
That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give
us [what we need], not what we now think () we want.
Once more, we are
embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too
little.
* 부사 that is ; In other words; that is to say. Used to introduce a clarification or explanation : i.e.
From The Problem of Pain
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain.
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