Rev. Dr. Liz Mosbo VerHage

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Powerful Reminder from C.S. Lewis

This quote just struck me as very profound when I read it today – and so I thought I’d share. Sometimes I find that its ‘the basics’ of my faith that I need to be reminded of, not just the complex or academic or advanced – somehow I can forget the initial baby steps of trusting and living wholly for God. 

From C.S. Lewis: 

“The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says ‘Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down…. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked – the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.’”  – from Mere Christianity

Check out this new blog that I just found (and love) for more thoughts about this quote – and the reality of how we are transformed bit by bit in Christ. The blog is written by a woman I met in college while doing urban outreach and her husband, both of whom are currently church planting and community developing in south central L.A. 

One thought on “Powerful Reminder from C.S. Lewis

  1. Hey Liz!

    Thanks for the shout-out!

    I am so thrilled for you guys on the birth of your precious baby. May God be abundant in ministering grace and strength to you both!

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