"The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing.
These
things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we
really
desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb
idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers.
For
they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not
found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never
yet visited.” - C.S.
Lewis, The Weight of Glory
“Every
poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the
thing he tells, to the love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot
be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him”- C.S.
Lewis, The Great Divorce
How often do we worship music, or art, or a message, or a pastor/speaker/author/theologian, even the natural beauty of mother earth! Focus on God because all creativity and beauty and truth comes from Him. He is the Creator!
No comments:
Post a Comment