Being a Christian means allowing the interpretation of life found in Christ Jesus to shape one’s existence. This becomes a unifying center for one’s life. It is the context in which all else is seen. It is, of all life’s considerations, the most important and it relativizes all else.

Vincent McNamara

For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the Lord, who has mercy on you.

Isaiah 54:10
The New Living Translation

Now, once again loaded with responsibilities—two orphaned teenage boys, an elderly alcoholic brother, and a household- bereaved and sorrowing, ill and tired, Jack [C. S. Lewis] discovered one of the greatest secrets of life: that no matter what is actually happening around you, you can still be content if you hand your life over entirely to Christ. Jack settled into a contentment that is hard to understand. He had to retire from Cambridge University. He was no longer able to go for the long walks he had delighted in. He was not allowed to drink wine or beer, not allowed to eat anything other than a strict diet prescribed by his doctors. All the pleasures of his life had been taken away from him as also had been the love of his life [the loss of his wife], and yet he was content. He was in that rare stature in which his physical disabilities and his emotional distresses no longer affected his happiness or lack of it. He had finally become able to make God the center of his life and to regard himself as merely a bit player in the drama. He was not exactly happy; he had merely come to the conclusion that his happiness was not what he should be seeking at all. In fact it was completely irrelevant, and therefore he was content to be without it.

Douglas Gresham

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