Lewis: focused on Heaven

Wednesday, February 23, 2022
    Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155
Meditation:
    All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
    —Hebrews 11:13-16 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the Slave Trade, all left their mark on Earth, precisely because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), Mere Christianity, New York: MacMillan, 1952, reprint, HarperCollins, 2001, p. 75 (see the book)
    See also Heb. 12:1-2; Matt. 5:11-12; Mark 16:19; John 14:2; 2 Pet. 3:13
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your people move the world for Your sake. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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