Pain: God's Megaphone

We are not merely imperfect creatures 

• who must be improved: 
• we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

...to render back the will 

• which we have so long claimed for our own, 
• is in itself, where ever and however it is done, 
• a grievous pain.

...to surrender a self-will 

• inflamed and swollen with years of usurpation 
• is a kind of death.

The human spirit...

• will not even begin to try to surrender self-will 
• as long as all seems to be well with it.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, 

• speaks in our conscience, 
• but shouts in our pain: 
• it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Excerpt From The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis