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SUMMARY:Lenten Weekday
DESCRIPTION:YOUR INNUMERABLE CHOICES\nFrom an excerpt from “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis 4\n◊◊◊\nHuman beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges\nthem by their moral choices… When a man who has been perverted from his\nyouth and taught that cruelty is the right thing\, does some tiny little kindness\,\nor refrains from some cruelty he might have committed\, and thereby\, perhaps\,\nrisks being sneered at by his companions\, he may\, in God’s eyes\, be doing more\nthan you and I would do if we gave up life itself for a friend… \nSome of us who seem quite nice people may\, in fact\, have made so little\nuse of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those\nwhom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved\nif we had been saddled with the psychological outfit\, and then with the bad\nupbringing\, and then with the power\, say\, of Himmler? That is why Christians\nare told not to judge. We see only the results which a man’s choices make out\nof his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all\, but\non what he has done with it. Most of the man’s psychological make-up is\nprobably due to his body: when his body dies all that will fall off him\, and the\nreal central man\, the thing that chose\, that made the best or the worst out of\nthis material\, will stand naked. All sorts of nice things which we thought our\nown\, but which were really due to a good digestion\, will fall off some of us: all\nsorts of nasty things which were due to complexes or bad health will fall off\nothers. We shall then\, for the first time\, see every one as he really was. There\nwill be surprises… \nPeople often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God\nsays\, “If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you\, and if you don’t I’ll do the other\nthing.”… I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are\nturning the central part of you\, the part of you that chooses\, into something a\nlittle different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole\, with all\nyour innumerable choices\, all your life long you are slowly turning this central\nthing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a\ncreature that is in harmony with God\, and with other creatures\, and with itself\,\nor else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God\, and with its fellowcreatures\, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that it is joy\nand peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness\, horror\,\nidiocy\, rage\, impotence\, and eternal loneliness… \nOne man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands\,\nand another so placed that however angry he gets he will only be laughed at.\nBut the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done\nsomething to himself which\, unless he repents\, will make it harder for him to\nkeep out of the rage next time he is tempted\, and will make the rage worse when\nhe does fall into it. Each of them\, if he seriously turns to God\, can have that\ntwist in the central man straightened out again: each is\, in the long run\, doomed\nif he will not. The bigness or smallness of the thing\, seen from the outside\, is\nnot what really matters… \nWhen a man is getting better\, he understands more and more clearly the\nevil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse\, he understands his\nown badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a\nthoroughly bad man thinks he is all right… Good people know about both good\nand evil: bad people do not know about either. \n4 Lewis\, C.S. Mere Christianity. New York: The Macmillan Company\, 1966. 85-87.
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