I was speaking to Kutz the other night. He was telling me how he sees sin as the distortion of a desire which was originally good. So if he feels tempted, he thinks about the particular temptation and tries to discern how, pre-fall, that desire would have been expressed. He looks backwards.
I do a similar thing, but look forwards. All of the desires that I feel now are in some way a longing for the new creation. So when I'm tempted to sin (which is usually about half a second before I'm in the thick of sin) I think about what it is that I really want. What part of the new creation am I particularly hanging out for at that moment?
Patience, then, is the virtue I need to cultivate. I will get what I want, and get it in a much more magnificent form than I can imagine. But not yet. I need to wait.
Just a few short years.
Hi Simone,
ReplyDeleteI kept waiting for some Biblical defence of this Platonic view of C. S. Lewis (et al.). Did I miss it?