Existential Hugs

It’s always special when one of my favorite authors quotes one of my other favorite authors, and I can count on Ravi Zacharias to quote C.S. Lewis regularly.

In a recent message, Ravi Zacharias told how C.S. Lewis was torn between pantheism and Christianity. He did not want Christianity to be true. If Christianity is true, there is a God whom we must obey, and that’s not convenient. But our desires do not determine truth.

Then Ravi inserted a seemingly unrelated story about wounded veterans getting prosthetic limbs. Two of them were interviewed for television. They said, “The best part about getting this now is that I can get a hug again.”

“You see,” Ravi explained “God has designed you and me for existential hugs. A temple will never embrace you. A ceremony will never give you a hug. But when you come to know Jesus Christ…” (and here’s that famous C.S. Lewis quote) ”…you don’t come to a place, you come to a Person.”

Have you had your hug today?