{"id":59914,"date":"2023-04-17T09:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=59914"},"modified":"2023-04-17T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:03:01","slug":"he-knows-all-about-it-c-s-lewis-and-psalm-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=59914","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe Knows All about It\u201d: C. S. Lewis and Psalm 103"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my favorite quotes by C. S. Lewis is from his popular book <em>Mere Christianity<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But if you are a poor creature\u2014poisoned by a wretched upbringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels\u2014saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion\u2014nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends\u2014do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day\u2026 you may astonish us all\u2014not least yourself: for you have learned your driving in a hard school.1<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be honest: in this particular quote, Lewis shows himself to be an equal-opportunity offender. His strong language and provocative examples catch us off guard, push our buttons, and seem to offend most everyone. For some, it&#8217;s finding his use of \u201cloathsome\u201d to be callous and uninformed. For others, his statement \u201cno choice of our own\u201d avoids issues of sin and culpability. Whatever it is, most of us can find something in this quote that we take issue with.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite quotes by C. S. Lewis is from his popular book Mere Christianity.\u00a0 But if you are [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post \u201cHe Knows All about It\u201d: C. S. Lewis and Psalm 103 appeared first on Christian Counseling &#038; Educational Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[281],"tags":[669,233,201],"class_list":["post-59914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-counseling-educational-foundation-ccef","tag-blog-posts","tag-suffering","tag-temptation","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59917,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59914\/revisions\/59917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}