Repentance
When the Pharisees were grumbling about Jesus eating and associating with sinners, Jesus said there will be great rejoicing over one sinner that repents than over ninety nine that feel they don't need to repent. Isaiah says that we have all as lost sheep gone astray. It is only when we come to Christ in repentence that God welcomes us with open arms.
Luke 15:7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
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TO MARY VAN DEUSEN: On God wanting us and not what we can do for God; and on our job to become more and more God’s.
25 March 1954
I must be short for I have had a run of absolutely full days and there are endless things waiting to be done. You ask ‘for what’ God wants you. Isn’t the primary answer that He wants you. We’re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His. Yes, isn’t [William] Law good?
From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III
Compiled in Yours, Jack
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer your life in any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
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