The Myth of the Ordinary

When I forget that I am made on God's image, to become like Him by grace, I start treating myself and others who are created in God's image, as "ordinary." This has terrible consequences!

I love this quote from C.S. Lewis: “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously – no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”

What strikes me most about it is the challenge it lays at our feet to finally and truly grasp what God has always intended to do for us humans – to make us like Himself! Jesus Christ has destroyed the power of mere mortality to rob us of our dignity as persons created in God’s image.