Till We Have Faces 1--Matt Brennan

When Psyche is talking to Maia, he raises a profound question: “Don’t you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they can’t help?” I think this is a frightening realization most of us come to, and we come to it more than once. But instead of trying to take it head on and embrace it, we so often sweep it under the rug, refusing to accept and deal with it. It’s one of the toughest pills to swallow—to come to find that we are actually not in control of everything in our lives. But why do we feel the need for such control? Genesis tells us that God created man in His image. If we want to change something in our lives because we don’t like it—and I’m not talking about sinful desires, because those we do need to change—then we are saying we want to change the image of God because we don’t like something about Him. This unpleased form of sin derives straight from or prideful nature. An author who wrote about C.S. Lewis’ faith, Richard Cunningham, says that pride is the biggest sin of all and that all other sins are rooted in the pride that is planted so deep in each of us. I believe it is this pride that gets in our way of appreciating the beauty of God’s image.