The Weight Of Glory

One quote from this reading stood out to me above all the others. Well in all honesty the word all is a tad strong but when CS Lewis stated that “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself;” I realized that I much like Mr. Lewis had been mistaken this entire time about the nature of humility. I had always assumed that since pride is considered a sin that the only natural opposite of that would be humility which I have always assumed to be synonymous with modesty. However I am now realizing that pride is considered a sin depending on the context in which it is placed and once again for someone who sees the world in black and white I can talk about nothing except that the gray area is correct. I find that it is as Jesus said that we must make ourselves like children in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. I had heard this before but it was not until I had heard the revelation that dawned upon Lewis that I truly understood what this meant. ““Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” With that, a good deal of what I had been thinking all my life fell down like a house of cards. I suddenly remembered that no one can enter heaven except as a child; and nothing is so obvious in a child—not in a conceited child, but in a good child—as its great and undisguised pleasure in being praised. Not only in a child, either, but even in a dog or a horse. Apparently what I had mistaken for humility had, all these years. prevented me from understanding what is in fact the humblest, the most childlike, the most creaturely of pleasures—nay, the specific pleasure of the inferior: the pleasure a beast before men, a child before its father, a pupil before his teacher, a creature before its Creator.”” I now know that humility is to have pride in the work you have put into something but only to a point. There is a line where pride does become a sin but so long as we think of it like a child going to its parents proud of something it had done we shall continue to have the correct type that is in reality the true form of humility, one that is both human and good.