| The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
"He wants them to walk and must therefore take away his hand; and if only the will to walk is really there he is pleased even with their stumbles....Our [Satan's disciples] cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."
i showed this passage to someone so they could read it, and she asked me if i felt this way a lot at east. i said "yes, but it's a good feeling." she kind of looked at me oddly and gave me back the book.
at second thought, however, i rarely feel like that, but i wish i did. see, i've only been feeling half of what that passage describes - the half about looking "round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished." My question to myself is, when i see that, and when i'm confused, and i've lost all desire to do good because i am so frustrated with what truth is, do i still have the strength to obey?
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