“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others do the same.”
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) in Mere Christianity (New York, HarperCollins, 1980) 136-37.
I’d like to dedicate today’s Meditation to two friends who went home to be with the LORD this week: Doug Johnson and Kim Kopp.
May God comfort their families with the truth that they have made it safely to their true home, and may this thought by Lewis inspire each of us to make the main object of each day God grants us to press on to to our true home and help others do the same.