"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good." -C.S. Lewis "The Great Divorce"
If this is true, then why am I so afraid to be the one who swims upstream? I think that you and I would both agree that we want to fit in. I think that the vast majority of people seek an existence that conforms to the culture and society around them, despite their desire, or lack thereof, to take on the belief systems of that culture and society. There are few people who desire nonconformity, and fewer still who actually seek it out. But as Henry David Thoreau said, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet despiration."
I live in despiration!! We all do. Despiration for what? Freedom from the strangling fetters of rules and values you don't actually agree with? Freedom from fear? Despiration for confidence in your God given gifts and abilities? Despiration for something more than the seemingly meaningless monotony that life had become?
Break free, Beloved... Jesus was never afraid to be an outcast. Break free or surely your spirit will die.
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36
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