Too easily pleased

"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis

While reading through C.S. Lewis' classic The Weight of Glory I was struck anew by this quote. Daily we chase things that are not worth our time and effort and act as if they are of infinite worth. If only we would realize that in Christ we have more than we could ever fathom. My prayer this month for us is that we would come to know and understand more what we have been given and that we would rest in that.

"But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." - Ephesians 2:4-7