J&D: As the Ruins Fall by CS Lewis
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.
I never had a selfless thought since I was born.
I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through:
I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn.
Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek,
I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin:
I talk of love —a scholar’s parrot may talk Greek—
But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.
Only that now you have taught me (but how late) my lack.
-CS Lewis
But that’s not where it ends. Paul Washer says it well. No longer is our joy found in our own performance, it is found in the finished work of Christ. Our hope was never about us. Our hope is in Christ.
What ridiculous grace and wondrous love is found in the atoning sacrifice of Christ.
