C.S. Lewis once said, “The real way of mending a man’s taste is not to denigrate his favorites but to teach him how to enjoy something better”. That’s a wonderful summary of our salvation. At the new birth, the Father teaches us to enjoy something far better — namely, King Jesus — by giving us his Spirit to beget new sight, draw to a new source, and inspire a new taste.
In other words, conversion is the creation of a Christian Hedonist, one who glories in the Father, through the Son, by the Spirit. And how could it be otherwise? If God has given us a new sight of his beauty, a new source of superior pleasure in him, and a new taste for all the golden goodness of God, how could we not relentlessly hunt our happiness in him? And how could we not ceaselessly invite others into this same marvelously happy way of life?
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