Making Mud Pies in a Slum

C.S. Lewis, one of my favorite writers wrote in “Weight Of Glory": "If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what it meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
“We must follow Jesus whole-heartedly vs half-heartedly. When we follow Jesus hardcore we get infinite joy and when we follow him half way we get “mud pies in a slum.” The question is can people see that the approval of others and financial security are merely “mud pies” in comparison to the adventure of following Christ.

1 Peter 4:1-5 “Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.”

You must prepare yourself mentally! Do not quit. Stay faithful to Jesus Christ!

You must know that if you decide to live for God others will try to talk you out of it. But the rewards are far greater than anything they can give you. Stay strong in the Lord. Stand firm! Worship the One Who made you and guides you and loves you!

Isaiah 55:8-11 ““For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” NIV