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C. S. Lewis explains that a person's prosperity and the happiness of their children are " not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and that if they have not learned to know Him (God) they will be wretched." And so, he believes, that God makes life, with its prosperity, less satisfying and allows suffering in order to effect "Divine humility." He writes, "If God were proud he would hardly have us on such terms: but he is not proud, he stoops to conquer; He will have us even though we have shown we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is nothing better to be had." Certainly, this was true for Job However, his suffering -- loss of family, physical misery, and mental anguish -- was redemptive, as all suffering is when faith is not relinquished. [C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1978)]
-- Dean
C. S. Lewis explains that a person's prosperity and the happiness of their children are " not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and that if they have not learned to know Him (God) they will be wretched." And so, he believes, that God makes life, with its prosperity, less satisfying and allows suffering in order to effect "Divine humility." He writes, "If God were proud he would hardly have us on such terms: but he is not proud, he stoops to conquer; He will have us even though we have shown we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is nothing better to be had." Certainly, this was true for Job However, his suffering -- loss of family, physical misery, and mental anguish -- was redemptive, as all suffering is when faith is not relinquished. [C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1978)]
-- Dean
