It is always shocking to meet life where
we thought we were alone. ‘Look out!’ we cry, ‘it’s alive’. And
therefore this is the very point at which so many draw back—I
would have done so myself if I could—and proceed no further with
Christianity. An ‘impersonal God’—well and good. A subjective
God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads—better
still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power
which we can tap—best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at
the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite
speed, the
hunter, king, husband—that is quite another
matter. There comes a moment when the children who have been
playing at burglars hush suddenly: was that a real footstep in
the hall? There comes a moment when people who have been
dabbling in religion (‘Man’s search for God!’) suddenly draw
back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come
to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us? - C.S. Lewis
from Miracles
Grace and peace,
Randy Turner
From the Pastor's Pen





