tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490249274712292401.post2765535715736589222..comments2015-07-17T20:59:45.523-07:00Comments on Being Pursued by the One Who Loves Me: A Wild Ride, Full of our God:)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11378675522553845492noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490249274712292401.post-61908723586502878642015-05-27T04:14:58.898-07:002015-05-27T04:14:58.898-07:00Praying for you all, Monica. Thank you so much for...Praying for you all, Monica. Thank you so much for keeping us updated. The perfect refining of our characters as God writes our stories His way can be so hard. It's an honor to be a part of your lives and to have you by our sides as we also try to learn these things about our Father and let Him create beautiful things through us. Lewis says it much better: :)<br /><br />"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of—throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself. The command 'Be ye perfect' is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command. If we let Him—for we can prevent Him, if we choose—He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine. The process will be long and in parts very painful, but that is what we are in for. Nothing less. He meant what He said." ~ C. S. Lewis - "Mere Christianity"<br /><br />"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." James 1:2-4Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com