Romans 8:28–29
And we know that in all things God
works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his
purpose.
For those God foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brothers.
Now
it may surprise you to learn that in His (The Enemy) efforts to get permanent
possession of a soul, He relies on the troughs even more than on the peaks;
some of His special favourites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than
anyone else. The reason is this. To us a human is primarily good; our aim is
the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own area of selfhood
at its expense. But the obedience which the Enemy demands of men is quite a
different thing. One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for
men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly
believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth. He really does want
to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of
Himself-creatures, whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitatively
like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely
conform to His. We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants
who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are
empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in
which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants
a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct.
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