• Lewis Ran From God

  Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 26, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Fear And Worry

  Denomination: Mennonite

LEWIS RAN FROM GOD

C. S. Lewis, the author of Prince Caspian, did not rejoice to find Jesus. He had been running from Him for his entire life. After a long search into what Christianity was and whether it could be trusted as truth, he said of himself:

"The fox had been dislodged from Hegelian Wood and was now running in the open, 'with all the woe in the world,' bedraggled and weary, hounds barely a field behind. And nearly everyone was now (one way or another) in the pack; Plato, Dante, MacDonald, Herbert, Barfield, Tolkien, Dyson, Joy itself. Everyone and everything had joined the other side. ... Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about 'man's search for God.' To me, as I then was, they might as well have talked about the mouse's search for the cat. ... You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet.

(Lewis, Surprised, 225-227)