This week I have another quote from George MacDonald (who is one of my all-time favorite authors). For you who may want to know more about MacDonald, here's a link to a brief biography of him: http://www.macdonaldphillips.com/legacy.html C.S. Lewis said of MacDonald: "I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself."
The following is from his novel, The Shepherd's Castle. Speaking of a young girl in his story, MacDonald says:
"...Unhappily, she had not gone direct to the very word of the Master himself. How could she? From very childhood her mind had been filled with traditional utterances concerning the divine character and the divine plans - the merest inventions of men far more desirous of understanding what they were required to understand than of doing what they were required to do.
She had had a governess of the so-called orthodox type, a large proportion of whose teaching was of the worst kind of heresy, for it was lies against Him who is light. Her doctrines were so many smoked glasses held up between the mind of her pupil and the glory of the living God - such as she would have seen for herself in time had she gone to the only knowable truth concerning God, the face of Jesus Christ..." Have a blessed week of looking on the face of Jesus Christ (without the "smoked glass" of religion) and seeing there the glory and beauty of God!
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