Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Backwards Christianity (Keep Back Nothing)

Completelysurrendered

Give up yourself,

    and you will find your real self.
Lose your life
   and you will save it.

Submit to death,
    death of your ambitions
        and favourite wishes every day
    and death of your whole body in the end:

Submit with every fibre of your being,
    and you will find eternal life.

Keep back nothing.
    Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours.
    Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.

Look for yourself,
    and you will find in the long run only
hatred,
loneliness,
despair,
rage,
ruin,
and decay.

But look for Christ
    and you will find Him,
and with Him everything else thrown in.

(from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, pg. 225 (Harper Collins).  Poetical arrangement added.)

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