I lost interest between Route 70's meme of Peewee Herman, and Vince calling anyone that disagreed with him a scorner. I guess that might make me a scorner...I dunno.
I did happen to find the following quote among my papers today. It's from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and it seems appropriate.
"Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed at being completely good...But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't." Do not, I implore you, start asking yourselves, 'Have I reached that moment?' Do not sit down and start watching your own mind to see if it is coming along. That puts a man quite on the wrong track. When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, 'Hullo! I'm growing up.' It is often only when he looks back that he realizes what has happened and recognizes it as what people call 'growing up.' You can see it even in simple matters. A man who starts anxiously watching to see whether he is going to sleep is very likely to remain wide awake. As well, the thing I am talking of now may not happen to everyone in a sudden flash - as it did with Saint Paul or Bunyan: it may be so gradual that no one could ever point to a particular year. And what matters is the nature of the change itself, not how we feel while it is happening. It is the change about feeling confident about our own efforts to the state in which we despair of doing anything for ourselves and leave it to God...The sense in which a Christian leaves it to God and puts his trust in Christ: trust that Christ will somehow share with him the perfect human obedience which He cried out from His birth to His crucifixion: that Christ will make the man more like Himself and, in a sense, make good his deficiencies...He will share his 'sonship' with us, will make us, like Himself, 'Sons of God'..."
"As Lewis said, until we discover in personal experience our own spiritual bankruptcy and despair of our ability to do anything that will put us right with God, we will not turn to Christ in true faith."
