No Other Option

Ray Ortlund post:  Depending solely on God

“It is a dreadful truth that the state of (as you say) ‘having to depend solely on God’ is what we all dread most.  And of course that just shows how very much, how almost exclusively, we have been depending on things.  But trouble goes so far back in our lives and is now so deeply ingrained, we will not turn to him as long as he leaves us anything else to turn to.  I suppose all one can say is that it was bound to come.  In the hour of death and the day of judgment, what else shall we have?  Perhaps when those moments come, they will feel happiest who have been forced (however unwittingly) to begin practicing it here on earth.  It is good of him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.”

C. S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady (Grand Rapids, 1967), page 47.  Italics original.