Becoming Who We’re Meant To Become.

Read this quote by C.S.Lewis and I’ll give you $50 if you do not get something out of it that specifically applies to your life right now and where you are at.

While I was hiking through the wilderness over Easter, I came to the realisation that I am a “glass-half-empty” kind of person. It really shook me. I couldn’t believe it. As the day progressed I found that I would find a negative angle on everything. My friend would say, “At least we’re going downhill” and I would say, “Yeah but now my feet are digging into my boots.” Seriously? This is me. I began freaking out. How am I going to change? I don’t want to be the person who sees the glass as half empty! Later that night, in my tent I read my Bible and prayed that God would change me and make me into a new creation that shines his light.

The next morning I woke up and this was what I read:

“Your real, new self (which is Christ’s and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange?

The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

The principle runs through all life from top to bottom, Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

-C.S.Lewis 

Pure gold hey? I now have the courage to change because I have Christ!

^“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come!”- 2 Corinthians 5:17