Written by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), a British writer and theologian. This is an excerpt from “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer.”
William Law remarks that people are merely “amusing themselves” by asking for the patience which a famine or a persecution would call for if, in the meantime, the weather and every other inconvenience sets them grumbling. One must learn to walk before one can run. So here. We — or at least I — shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest. At best, our faith and reason will tell us that He is adorable, but we shall not have found Him so, not have “tasted and seen.” Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are “patches of Godlight” in the woods of our experience.
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! [Psalm 34:8]
The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. [Psalm 46:7]
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