It is time for the final installment of October quotes. Since the final quote is being posted on Halloween, I decided to use a quote that dealt with humans being converted into machines. It sounds very random, but you’ll see, it will all make sense by the end of this page.
Before I get to the quote, I would like to set it up with a verse.
Galatians 5:1
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.
With that being said, C.S. Lewis says…
“Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automation -- of creatures that worked like machines -- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.”
It sounds a little redundant to hear Paul say “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” If you consider C.S. Lewis’ quote, it makes a little more sense to include the redundancy. Lewis imagines a world with a selfish God that would seek to control his creations. In this regard, the verse could be changed to read, it is for control…or, it is for rules.
Sometimes when we believe we are giving our loved ones freedom, there are strings of control attached. Our God has set us free for the sole and unadulterated purpose of freedom. Because of OUR tendencies, it is often difficult to understand true freedom. The more we learn to live in freedom, the more we will be able to give that freedom to the ones we love, and the more we will be able to feel love “worth having”.
As Wyclef says, “I’ll be gone ‘till November”,
Jacob