Rod gave me a ride to Budapest on a dreary, threatening Saturday afternoon this winter. I was looking forward to a couple of days to read and just talk to God. My friend Mark had gone to the United States and gave me the keys to his apartment. So before I left I went to Rod’s office and grabbed a book to read. I took “Mere Christianity” by CS Lewis. 

      This book is more than a treatise on Christianity. It’s a collection of radio broadcasts that CS Lewis gave over the BBC during WWII on Christianity to give hope and inspire. He spoke on
everything; who God is, the human condition in God, towards God and why possibly man runs from God. He spoke of the great virtues faith, hope and charity devoting two chapters to faith. What I liked about this book is the intellectual approach taken by him on the harder things like the Holy Spirit. I like meat.

       A teacher once said concerning spiritual things with regards to speaking in tongues that it insulted his intellect (as it does for so many) and that became a stumbling block to an  acceptance of something more, something spiritual beyond ‘mere intellect’. The intellect can be a source of pride or a way to wisdom. Faith is unexplainable intellectually; or is it? Is it relative or is it real? Is faith or the Spirit approached on this plane? I know God is…God is spirit…John 4:24a

       CS Lewis openly spoke of his past atheism and how it was confronted and overtaken by the love of God – intellectually. His approach was that of illumination not of suffocation. A good  many Christians including myself could learn from that. Many times he would say, “If you don’t get it, leave alone for a while” because you will get it as God reveals it to you. At first I disagreed with some points on this but as I thought on it and pulled it out of my rigid
dogma and into His love, dogma and doctrine gave way to God. Why must we demand a say and not just get out of the way? We plant, we water but God…