"Sinai," from George MacDonald: an Anthology, p. 4
“[God] is against sin: insofar as, and while, they and sin are one, He is against them–against their desires, their aims, their fears, and their hopes; and thus He is altogether and always for them. That thunder and lightening and tempest, that blackness torn with the sound of a trumpet, that visible horror billowed with the voice of words, was all but a faint image … of what God thinks and feels against vileness and selfishness, of the unrest of unassuageable repulsion with which He regards such conditions.”
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Lauren’s thoughts: It’s odd thinking that God is both for and against us. He’s against the sins we’re tangled up in; he’s against our innate drive for self-gratification, for hunger over restraint. But because he is against that, he’s for us. He wants a Lauren – he wants a you – purged from sin.
October 4, 2010