Tag Archives: paradise
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JANUARY 30
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant … Continue reading
MORNING AND EVENING: DECEMBER 19
MORNING “The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.” Proverbs 16:33 If the disposal of the lot is the Lord’s whose is the arrangement of our whole life? If the simple casting … Continue reading
MORNING AND EVENING: DECEMBER 11
MORNING “Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.” 1 Thessalonians 5:24 Heaven is a place where we shall never sin; where we shall cease our constant watch against an indefatigable enemy, because there will be no … Continue reading
MORNING AND EVENING: OCTOBER 4
MORNING “At evening time it shall be light.” Zechariah 14:7 Oftentimes we look forward with forebodings to the time of old age, forgetful that at eventide it shall be light. To many saints, old age is the choicest season in … Continue reading
MORNING AND EVENING: JULY 20
MORNING “The earnest of our inheritance.” Ephesians 1:14 Oh! what enlightenment, what joys, what consolation, what delight of heart is experienced by that man who has learned to feed on Jesus, and on Jesus alone. Yet the realization which we … Continue reading
MORNING AND EVENING: JUNE 22
MORNING “He shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory.” Zechariah 6:13 Christ himself is the builder of his spiritual temple, and he has built it on the mountains of his unchangeable affection, his omnipotent … Continue reading
MORNING AND EVENING: JUNE 10
MORNING “We live unto the Lord.” Romans 14:8 If God had willed it, each of us might have entered heaven at the moment of conversion. It was not absolutely necessary for our preparation for immortality that we should tarry here. … Continue reading
MORNING AND EVENING: JUNE 1
MORNING “The evening and the morning were the first day.” Genesis 1:5 Was it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of time in the first day? Then little wonder is it if I have … Continue reading