Read by Dr Hendrick
A summary by CS Lewis on G MacDonald’s writings - his favorite writer. Not an easy book to ready, as the English is quite old. However, here are some of its more memorable excerpts;
God will not force the door (of our hearts) to enter in. He may send a tempest (storm) about the house, the wind of His admonishment (rebuke/warning) may burst doors & windows, yea, shake the house to its foundations; but not then, not so will He enter.
The door must be open by the willing hand, ere (before) the foot of Love will cross the threshold. He watches to see the door move from within. Every tempest is but an assault in the siege of Love.
The terror of God is but the other side of Love; it is love outside, that would be inside - love that the house is no house, only a place, until it enters.
Doubt Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things not yet, but have to be understood. D
oubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown & unexplored. Job ... that the best of men, when he sees the face of God, will know himself (to be) vile.
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