Wednesday, February 25, 2009

True Christianity


This is the last paragraph I read last night in the C.S. Lewis book, Mere Christianity.

I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.But this is near the stage where the road passes over the rim of our world. No one's eyes can see very far beyond that: lots of people's eyes can see further than mine.


I thought this was a beautiful way of explaining what true Christianity should be. When you keep your eyes on Jesus, you are less concerned with yourself and doing good. Any good you do is not because you are trying or because of rules or a sense of duty, but because your focus is on Him and he changes you and your attitude and your desires. You do good because He is good and He lives in you.

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