“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. I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. 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 whole new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.'”
C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity (New York: HarperCollins, 1980) 196-197.
Lent is half over. Are we learning to die to self? Are we discovering the gift God offers us when we learn to die to self. The gift is Himself. Will we take it? Will you?