It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.
This let me think about the first chapter of Plantinga's Engaging God's World. In class we have discussions about our longings. Plantinga says that our longings will never be fulfilled. To nerge with Lewis's idea, because our longings are always too small, it will just continue to grow but not fulfilled. We should long about going to heaven.
I think The Weight of Glory is somehow related to our previous studies, Our English Syllabus. In The Weight of Glory, Lewis give a exmaple about a schoolboy beginning Greek grammar. He will find joy after he reach the stage of enjoying Greek poetry. This is similar to what Lewis says in Our English Syllabus about difference between learning and education. During this boy's education process (learning Greek grammar), he cannot find joy in it. However, after he can read Greek poetry, which is probably what he tried to "learn" by himself, he find joy in it.
This is also what I find when I learn Japanese. I have both been educated through Japanese class and learned by myself afterwards, and I find out that learn by myself have more joy in it.
Lewis thinks that we Christians have the same position. We have to continue to study for God's word, and to try to attain the everlasting life. After that we will get our reward.
Lewis then talk about glory. He said there are two ideas of glory: fame or luminosity. He joked about that it shouldn't be luminosity because we don't want to be a living electric light bulb. He thinks that glory is "being noticed by God".
As I have never thought about what glory is, I think Lewis's idea is kind of interesting.
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