What a Book

I am reading a new book. I can't help it, ADHD. But a good friend referred me to CS Lewis' The Problem of Pain. Amazing book so far. Its pretty small and should be a short read but man, it is powerful.

Here is something to hit me today: "It (Christianity) is a not system in which we have to fit the awkward fact of pain: it is itself one of the awkward facts which have to be fitted into any system we make. In a sense, it creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless, side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteous and loving.

Needless to say, this statement is pretty loaded. What he is talking about is that Christianity was not some philosophical conclusion but a people and a movement that has changed history, from Christ's death and resurrection to now. So because of that we can see the pain the world experiences through the spectrum of Scripture as revealed to us through the Holy Spirit. Pretty relevant today.