Amiel: ascent to the divine

Thursday, January 29, 2015
Meditation:
    When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
    —1 Corinthians 15:54 (NIV)
Quotation:
    To curse grief is easier than to bless it, but to do so is to fall back into the point of view of the earthly, the carnal, the natural man. By what has Christianity subdued the world if not by the apotheosis of grief, by its marvellous transmutation of suffering into triumph, of the crown of thorns into the crown of glory, and of a gibbet into a symbol of salvation? What does the apotheosis of the Cross mean, if not the death of death, the defeat of sin, the beatification of martyrdom, the raising to the skies of voluntary sacrifice, the defiance of pain?
    ... Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881), The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, tr. Mrs. Humphry Ward, New York: Macmillan, 1885, p. 262 (see the book)
    See also 1 Cor. 15:54-57; Ps. 30:11; Isa. 25:7-8; Matt. 5:4; Luke 20:36; John 11:35; 16:33; Rom. 8:35-37; 1 John 5:4; Rev. 21:4
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have transformed all the grief in my life to joy. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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