We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love
us, that we may become objects in which the Divine love may rest 'well
pleased' To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must, in the nature of things, be impeded and repelled by certain stains in our present character, and because He already loves us He must labour to make us lovable. We cannot even wish, in our better moments, that He could reconcile Himself to our present impurities-no more than the beggar maid could wish that King Cophetua should be content with her rags and dirt, or a dog, once having learned to love man, could wish that man were such as to tolerate in his house the snapping, verminous, polluting creature if the wild pack...C.S. Lewis the Problem of Pain. Chpt 3
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