The Worst Pleasures

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Culled from C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity:

‘If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong; of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport; back-biting; the pleasures of power and hatred. For there are two things inside me, competing with the human self which I must try to become. They are the Animal Self, and the Diabolical Self.  The Diabolical Self is the worse of the two. That is why a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But of course it is better to be neither’. 

May the Holy Spirit help us to be  alert to our spiritual sins, sins laid bare by our motives and inner thoughts, which are not visible to men. Amen.

Published by Leila Peters

Leila Peters is the pen name of a Writer who describes herself as a daily recipient of Divine Mercy and a steward of God's grace. She is a wife, mother and professional ,who values Christ's personal peace as her greatest gift from God, and hungers for Godly wisdom everyday.