C.S. Lewis
March 28, 2010
March 28 reading in A Year with C.S Lewis
Title: Point of Contact
We must not hink Prise is something God forbids because he is offended at it, or that Humility is something he demands as due to His own dignity–as if God himself was proud. He is He isn’t in the least worried about His dignity. HTe point is, He wants you to know Him: wants to give you Himself. And He and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble–delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless an unhappy all your life. He is trying to make you humble in order to make this moment possible: trying to take off a lot of silly, fancy-dress in which we have all go ourselves up and are strutting about like the little idiots we are. I wish I had got a bit further with humility myself: If I had, I could probably tell you more about the relief, the comfort, of taking the fancy-dress off–getting rid of the false self, with all its ‘look at me’ and ‘Aren’t I a good boy?’ and all it posing and posturing. To get even near it, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert. From Mere Christianity
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