{The Coming of the Trinity}[20th March 1988]

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There are probably other* anti-signs or negative indications. But one thing well worth bearing in mind is that (in my experience, and to adapt the wonderfully appropriate words of C.S. Lewis), God is 'not a tame lion'.**

Jesus Christ was given to us in such a form in History that we may call him to mind as the Archetype upon which we wish to model ourselves, the Son, at any time, and by meditating upon Jesus Christ we ourselves may hope to become like him (I do not say, identical to him).

But God the Father-Spirit is not like that.

God the Son, Christ, comes to you whenever you want: is always there when you need him, often when you did not think you had asked.

God the Father comes, if at all, in answer to Prayer for him, but only when he wills, not when you will.

And God the Spirit comes upon you unawares, when you are not expecting it, or not necessarily, and turns you upside down. That, at any rate, thinking back, now, and forward [sic], is my experience of what (and how) I distinguish.

*[See last previous entry.]

**[“He'll be coming and going. One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down – and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.” – Mr. Beaver, speaking of Aslan, in 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' by C.S Lewis.]

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