It doesn’t usually end well when something tries to be something it’s not. Quite often the result is pain and struggle.
As I relate to God, I often find myself trying to be something I am not and was never made to be. Frankly put, at the core of it, I try to be God.
In The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis wrote: “They wanted to be nouns, but they were, and eternally must be mere adjectives.”
I remember elementary school when I learned about grammar and sentence structure. All about nouns and adjectives, subjects and predicates. The noun is the subject, it’s what the whole sentence is all about. And the adjective is used to describe the noun.
The structure of a sentence depicts the way life is to be lived: God is the subject in the sentence and in life. He is the purpose of all things and the focus of all things. God is, and will always be, the noun while I am, and will always be, an adjective.
So often, in my pride and selfishness, I try to be the noun and make it about me. This will never work. It will only work when God is allowed to be the subject of it all and I, in humility, live a life that describes Him and His character to the world.
In the sentence of my life, I am, and eternally must be an adjective.
