“Pain Proves What? Blog #46

It’s interesting to note that one of the greatest atheists (non-believer in Jesus Christ)

was C. S Lewis. Here was a world renown author, who wrote the famous books,

“Chronicles of Narnia”. He wrote countless other famous books as well. Did you know

C. S. Lewis is one of the most famous Christian writers of all time? How did this Atheist

become a Christian? Did his pain have anything to do with his beliefs? When this

famous writer was only nine years old, his mother died. Then C. S. Lewis entered WW11 at

the ripe old age of nineteen. He saw death first hand and was almost mortally

wounded. He left the war after only six months. This famous atheist questioned “how

could a good God allow so many good people to die?” Suffering and pain are all part of

the process of Life.

Every single person goes full circle.

I believe that this famous author lived in an analytical world. He pondered life and

looked at life from an intellectual schism. However, he sought happiness in the outside

world in another human being. He married for what was only a short time of three years

and watched his wife die of cancer. I am assuming this man’s pain humbled the man.

For it is only in pain and suffering that we are chiseled and molded into something

much better. This is “where God takes a breath and works seriously with us”. I believe

Jesus Christ in all his humanity, took on the suffering and pain of others. He came into

the world perfect. He taught simple perfect laws. He showed by perfect example how

to live. He stepped out of his humaness to perform miracles, one after another. The

ironic twist to all of this is HE could have come down off of the cross, but HE chose not to!

In his human pain, rather saying, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do”.

But none of this was enough for mankind!

For this mans entire being was a threat to all those around him. Why? Because no one

person could walk in HIS footsteps. Therefore C. S. Lewis realized that all intellectual

answers as to “why” we have pain and suffering is because we learn about Christs light

through pain, patience & fortitude. This digs in deep through our complacency. Pain

exists as a “great teacher” to us intimately.

Human pain is the “attention getter” and brings us to our knees. Pain helps us to

reorganize our thoughts, reset our priorities and readdress where our true grievances lie.

It’s interesting to note here, that years back when 9/11/2001 occurred and many

thousands of lives were lost - amidst all the mass of metal and debris from the Twin

Towers crashing down to the ground, right in the middle of all that debris was a

perfectly, untouched cross from the church across the street. Symbolic in all its

simplicity in such a secular world. What is the message that was being sent here?

Now we look back to how this famous writer discovered his own Christianity. We are

told he wrestled for years in his atheist state and then suddenly realizing one must go

down, way down, before a person can begin the arduous journey up. Up into the light

of Christ and this is where C. S. Lewis discovered Christ in a beautiful English garden.

In “Wallaby Woods, this beautiful English garden captivated this analytical atheists’

being. Christianity completely turned him inside out.

Of course, I cannot begin to summarize how this famous Christian writer, who wrote

countless books on his own personal journey, went from being an atheist to a Christian.

It is not possible to summarize this amazing fact in just a few sentences. One would

have to delve deeper, read one or many of his famous books. But this fact remains,

C. S.Lewis is a reputable source for conversion. What a fascinating, astute, scholar.

His garden experience makes me wonder what do I actually SEE each day?

When I wake up and walk out into the secular world around me, what am I open to?

Yes, I am alive, but what stands in my way of constantly pushing me up the path,

up onto the higher road? In my own lifetime I have suffered profound pain. I have

questioned and doubted and suffered to the very core of my being, I have cried out; “IF

you are here, WHERE are you Jesus?”…. “WHY was I put here?”

“Why did I have half my family wiped out, taken from me in horrific ways?” I kept myself

in darkness for a very long time. This was my own personal pain. Now, as I look back at

the young person I started out energetically as, I see a stranger. Here was a young

woman, foolish and fear-based. Fear was always at bay, I look back and see a person

that was hiding out from her “higher self”, totally clueless. I had little or no interest in

finding a place in the Christian community. I had no interest in learning about the man

Jesus. I actually only looked at any type of faith as perhaps a feeble “911 call”. “Maybe”, I

rationalized, “I might cry out in an emergency. I might call out in the depths of my

despair, in dire need. But only IF it ever really got that bad…”

I think people have no idea what they really need for their pain. People, like my

daughter Bridget, use drugs, alcohol and pills to camouflage their pain. Most people

don’t know when it gets to a point of no return.

Then one day, when I least expected it, it got that bad. My pain finally brought me to my

knees and did just that. I am humbled to say I was lost but now feel very much alive.

I am a true believer in Jesus the man, and Jesus Christ my Lord, my Savior.

Miracles have definitely happened to me. No question about believing in HIM.

There is such a peace-filled comfort in knowing a real person that took on his humanity,

in all his perfection, cared that much about me. I feel safe now.

Do you want to believe in Jesus Christ?

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