Screwtape Letters II

It was very easy for me to see and understand the 'human undulation' on the day we read about it for a few reasons. I've noticed that pattern in my life and in the life of others, and it seems universal. I myself was somewhere on the bottom slope of an undulation at the time, and so I could identify well. "He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles." Being in a trough (a shallow one, but a trough none-the-less), it is easier to understand what Lewis means by this quote. I may feel like God is not so near as he was before, but that isn't the point. the point is that he wants me to make the effort to walk with him, so that he knows that i want to. To use another metaphor, if we were riding a tandem bicycle, then when both riders pedal, the going is pretty easy. but if one person stops pedaling, the other has to work harder. If God stops pedaling, he's still on the bike, he just wants to know that we still want to ride with him, and are willing to work for it.