A Thought

"God does not, by the instant gift of His Spirit, make us always feel right, desire good, love purity, aspire after Him and His Will...The truth is this: He wants to make us in His own image, choosing the good, refusing the evil. How should He effect this if he were always moving us from within, as He does at divine intervals, toward the beauty of holiness?...For God made our individuality as well as, and a greater marvel than. our dependence; made our apartness from Himself, that freedom should bind us divinely dearer to Himself, with a new and inscrutable marvel of love; for the Godhead is still at the root, is the making root of our individuality, and the freer the man, the stronger the bond that binds him to Him who made his freedome." ~An Anthology of George MacDonald (edited by C.S. Lewis)