What's He Waiting For?

God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realize what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over.

- C.S. Lewis

I like the analogy Lewis uses here. He's called God the author of a play in other writings as well (I think his book Miracles is one of them), and it's fun for me to think of our reality in terms of that possibility. If I remember right, this quote is from Mere Christianity, and Lewis is addressing the want in all of us for justice, for the wrongs of this world to be righted: 'C'mon, what's He waiting for?' seems to be a universal sentiment no matter if you believe in an actual 'He' or not. I would assume that most atheists or agnostics see things in the world that they are not happy about - for some (specific names elude me), that's one of the very reasons they can't honestly say there is a God.

One thing that Lewis points out which I tend to agree with is that a great deal of the wrongs in this world come from us. They come from me and my want to be comfortable, and to have things my way, running up against the very same thing in you. God wants us to turn to Him for our happiness, to turn to Him for our comfort, and to trust Him to provide for our needs and our wants, our security. One thing I think God sees which we don't most of the time (there are many) is that the things we want, the things we need are all God given deisres. He placed them in us as clues to lead us back to Him. Lewis believes that God will come back some day, and right all the wrongs, but before He does, He wants all who will to turn to Him, to follow the clues back to Him, and declare that they want to be on His side...that they want Him to be their provider, and their source of life. It would appear that in order for that to happen, for God to return and rid the world of its self-made misery, reality as we know it will have to be changed - we will be on another level then, we will have direct access to God. Then we will know - not wonder or believe or hope or dread or doubt, but really know - what He is and what He wants. I hope for my own sake it's not too much of a surprise for me to take.