Day 34: Consenting to Temptation (Introduction to the Devout Life)
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Is God Like Designing All Kinds of Athletic Training Exercises?
CS Lewis: Time on earth is like an athletic facility or a training ground. We exercise our whole humanity so that when it comes time for us to pass from this life to the next, we're strong enough and can bear all the weight of glory in heaven. And I think that when you use this image, then you have to say, okay, then what's God doing? Okay. It's like, again, like a good parent who wants to train us up in our humanity. He created us for that end. he redeemed us so as to give us a renewed lease on that opportunity. But with the how much more of this new offer in our Lord Jesus Christ of a friendship
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