So much to be gleaned from this book. Wanted to share a few things that seemed to go along with the subject of my last BLOG post (“The Path To Joy: Acceptance”).
The excerpts below are taken from a conversation between the main character and the “spirit” of George MacDonald (ironically, my favorite author and the man who Lewis said was his “master”).
MacDonald:
“Son, ye cannot in your present state understand eternity . . . but ye can get some likeness of it if ye say that both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective. . . That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.”
” . . . what happens to {the Saved} is best described as the opposite of a mirage. What seemed, when they entered it, to be the vale of misery turns out, when they look back, to have been a well; and where present experience saw only salt and deserts, memory truthfully records that the pools were full of water.”
“Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.”
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“But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.” Hebrews 11:16
