Today's motivational quote is from C.S.
Lewis! Bet you never heard of that guy. So,
let's jump into . . . Monday Morning Motivational Quotes! CS Lewis is one of the most famous
Christian authors of the modern era. Even
to the point where many in the secular
world respect his ideas and his
philosophies.
I've even got C.S. Lewis's book "Mere
Christianity" behind me, because his
thoughts have done so much to inspire me,
in my faith. And the thoughts of CS Lewis
are so motivational and so inspiring, at
least to me, that I can almost always
grab onto something new, even if I've
heard the quote a hundred times before,
and I can almost always take motivation
and inspiration from the things that he's
said. One of his most famous quotes,
though, comes from his book "Mere
Christianity," and the quote is famous
enough that I feel confident that you've
either heard it quoted, or at the very
least you've heard a paraphrased version
of it. Now, for you hardcore C.S. Lewis fans
out there, I'm going to go ahead and tell
you right now that I did take some bits
and pieces out of the quote. It was just
too long to fit the whole thing, however,
so that nobody gets mad at me, in the
video description is a link to the full
quote, if you want it. "Creatures are not
born with desires unless satisfaction
for those desires exists. A baby feels
hunger: well, there's such a thing as food.
A duckling wants to swim: well, there's
such a thing as water . . . If I find in
myself a desire which no experience in
this world can satisfy, the most probable
explanation is that I was made for
another world . . . Probably earthly pleasures
were never meant to satisfy it, but only
to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.
If that is so, I must take care, on the
one hand, never to despise, or to be
unthankful for, these earthly blessings,
and on the other, never to mistake them
for the something else of which they are
only a kind of copy, or echo, or Mirage. I
must keep alive in myself the desire
from my true country, which I shall not
find till after death . . . I must make it the
main
object of life to press on to that
country and to help others to do the
same. And again, this is a quote that
probably all of us have heard at least
once before, and yet every time I read it
it awakens in me some new desire, some
new longing, some new passion! And this
concept that these good things, things
like food, that is necessary to sustain
life - we have to eat in order to live, and
yet, on top of that food even tastes good - 
and things like water, that the majority
of our bodies are made up of water, the
majority of the earth is water - the
planet that we call home - and so many
things like ducks swim in it, fish live
in it, we need to drink it in order to
quench our thirst, and in order to live.
And, yet, all of these things, no matter
how good they are, no matter how positive,
and they are positive, they're made to
make us long for the next life. They're
not made to arouse in us a desire for
this life. Whenever we're thirsty, we're
not supposed to think "man, I'm so glad
that I can have a glass of water," instead
we're supposed to think about those
passions, those desires, those thirsts
that cannot be quenched in this life. Our
thirst here is supposed to make us
thirst for the next life! Our hunger here
is supposed to make us hunger for the
next life! Sometimes, though, it's
difficult, as Christians, to maintain
those longings. It's so easy to get
caught up in all of the other things
that are in the world. It's so easy to be
caught up in the necessity of water, the
the positive nature of water, or the the
necessity of food, or the necessity of
clothing, and it's so easy to get so
caught up in those things that we forget
about the real purpose in our lives and
that's why the end of the quote is so
important! "I must keep alive in myself
the desire for my true country, which I
shall not find till after death. I must
make it the main object of my life to
press onto that country and help others
do the same." So, are you having trouble,
today, keeping that desire alive for your
true country? Just imagine how much
better it's going to be! A place where
there's no tears, no
pain, no suffering! A place where everyone
will be treated as equals, and not just
equals but princes and princesses in the
greatest Kingdom that will ever exist, in
all of eternity! We tell our children
these outlandish stories about
princesses being saved by knights and
shining armor, and yet, we fail to instill
in them the understanding that these
aren't just fantasies but, in many ways
their descriptions of a world is yet to
come, a kingdom that they're a part of! We
watch movies and television shows about
these great heroes who win the day,
through sacrifice and through
selflessness, and yet, we fail to remember
that we are those heroes! Our kingdom is
so far greater than anything this world
has to offer,
our wealth is beyond measure, and our
power and our honor are beyond any
understanding, even our own understanding,
right now! And everything around you, from
the rumble in your stomach that tells
you you're hungry, to the beauty of a
sunset that takes your breath away, from
the pleasure you feel after getting to
come home and relax after a hard day's
work, to the power that is held within a
thunderstorm, everything around you is
designed to bring you back to the desire
for the country that is yours, and to
make you want to bring people with you.
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