C.S. Lewis – ‘Be Known’
Posted on August 4, 2011 by robinbaker
“He makes each soul unique.
If He had no use for all these differences, I do not see why He should have created more souls than one.
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him;
and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
[The mold //in which a key is made] would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key;
and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock.
Our soul has a curious shape /because it is a hollow /made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours
of the Divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions.
* Hollow 명 an empty space ; 형 empty
For it is not humanity in the abstract //that is to be saved, but you— you, the individual reader, John Stubbs or Janet Smith.
Blessed and fortunate creature, your eyes shall behold him and not another’s.
[All that you are], sins apart, is destined, if you will let God have His good way to utter satisfaction. …
But God will look to every soul like its first love /because He is its first love.
Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone,
because you were made for it—made for it stitch by stitch /as a glove is made for the hand.”
— C. S. Lewis, Made for Heaven