God is not content to leave the believer as he is, pursuing idols that can never satisfy. It is a severe mercy that he would remove temporal, idolatrous happiness to make us more holy. Severe- because refining fire must burn out things which we hold dear. Mercy- because we are made more like the Son and more free to worship and delight in our God. - C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy
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