Greetings Dear Reader,
“If he now failed, this world also would hereafter be redeemed. If he were not the ransom, another would be. Yet nothing was ever repeated. Not a second crucifixion; perhaps-who knows-not even a second Incarnation... some act of even more appalling love, some glory of yet deeper humility.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
I often consider that I, and all of my kind, humans do not understand the great depth of damage done by our pride and arrogance. It is my own that I seek to understand and kill but I also see it in us all. We rarely get the depth and power of genuine humility.
We often try to act or be humble. It is, however, a constant elusive chase. Humility seems to be gossamer and fragile in the human soul. Like a Will-o-the-Wisp it presents itself in the moment but is gone even as we seek to grasp it. Humility is vital to our understanding of the universe but we forget its supernatural nature.
It may be that like true love, it is so close to the heart of the Father that we cannot see it clearly because we are so far away. We think that the cobwebs of our failures build humility in us. Instead, we think we have learned to be humble and, in the same moment, we are prideful because of it.
We killed the GOD-man because he evidenced genuine love and deep humility. That was not arrogance in his poignant statements about the Father. It was not pride that proclaimed his deity. Even when we accept it, we have trouble with this combination of the natural and the supernatural.
It is our pride that struggles against the truth that we are not in a natural state. We are not supposed to wrestle with pride and lack humility. Love is supposed to guide us into a meekness that is powerful and commanding. We live in the sub-natural realm, when our designed nature is to be filled with love that yields always to good, right, love, and sacrifice.
Perhaps our failure to grasp how deeply the Father loves us is rooted in our inability to conceive of such a deep level of humility. It is that humility, however, that we may chase in order to understand how a foundation of love works. Doing so leads us down a path. It guides us deeper into the wood until we are consumed by it. We catch a glimpse and chase it deeper or we give up the chase thinking we have attained.
In the chase, the journey is the chance to attain. It is stepping from one moment to the next determined to see that the Son, the GOD-man will do whatever is necessary to reclaim his own. He will find deeper love, deeper humility, and greater compassion. He will use this ultimate weapon to crush all of our resistance until of our own humbled will we acknowledge, accept, and avow that attaining him and loving him is our only hope.
It takes the stripping away of pride and becoming humble. It requires that we choose him out of faith. It requires that we follow in love. It takes the full acceptance that “in him (Jesus) we live and move and have our being”. If we chase this together, it is much easier Dear Reader. It is in this common chase that we get to practice love and humility with each other.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”
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