“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
–C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: HarperCollins, 1940/1996), 91.
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[…] Of course, I’m hardly one to talk—and not just because I was equally sleepy in high school. Reading Psalm 13 this morning, I was struck by King David’s petition that God “light up [his] eyes, lest [he] sleep the sleep of death.” If David, a faithful servant of the Lord and predecessor to Jesus Christ Himself, worried about being spiritually asleep without realizing it, it probably behooves me to attend to the consciousness of my own soul. Luckily for me, God possesses a powerful weapon for zapping me awake—one my classroom arsenal lacks, probably for the best (hah)—and that’s pain. […]
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“Whatever it takes, dear Father.”
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We don’t have to wait for GOD to speak to us through a painful experience. We must heed GOD now.
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Tripe, drivel and phlegm – at a point the onslaught of the ‘megaphone’ numbs the soul to mindless mush, yielding little beyond self-preserving reply rather than meaningful engagement.
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the EXISTENCE of pain is proof of the value of it
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[…] C.S. Lewis once said, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” Megaphone has an important use during military training. The drill instructor holding a megaphone can powerfully command the entire battalion of new recruits to move as he wishes. Megaphone can also make a siren sound to call everyone to move out during an emergency situation. When I was a trainee, I hated awaken each morning by an instructor holding a megaphone calling for reveille and road run. Megaphone is an ideal equipment to magnify one’s voice to stress and relay a message to people with deaf ears. […]
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Reblogged this on Beyond the Zone: God and The Spiritual Journey.
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