Lenten Devotions

At an Ash Wednesday service I attended, we were given booklets of Lenten devotions based on apologist commentaries by C. S. Lewis. Coincidentally I had seen a play the week before, a somewhat fictional play where Lewis and Sigmund Freud meet and have a discussion about whether or not there is a God. In it, Lewis seemed (at least to me) to come out on top. He willingness to admit that he didn't have all the answers and that the God he so loved wasn't going to provide him with those answers was presented in a peaceful, humble and joyous manner. Receiving the book of devotions has furthered my excitement to better understand how Lewis understood God and Christianity. A couple of days ago the devotion was based on Matthew 5:19. Lewis talks about God using trials to force Christians to a higher level thus making them braver, more patient, more loving, more tolerant of frailties. Lewis ends the segment by saying, "It seems to us all unnecessary: but that is because we have not yet had the slightest notion of the tremendous thing He means to make of us."