…as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing
2 Corinthians 6:10
A
little way off at the foot of a tree sat a merry party… “What is the meaning of
this?” asked the Witch Queen. Nobody answered.
“Speak,
vermin!” she said again. “Or do you want my dwarf to find you a tongue with his
whip? What is the meaning of all this gluttony, this waste, this
self-indulgence? Where did you get all these things?”
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Enemy-occupied
territory – that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the
rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us
all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
Mere Christianity
Though
the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labour of
the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; though the flock may be cut
off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls – yet I will rejoice in
the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
