IN HIS CLASSIC WORK,
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis wrote “If you want to get wet you must get into the water.
If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even
into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if
He chose, just hand out to anyone. They are a great fountain of energy and
beauty spurting up at the very center of reality. If you are close to it, the
spray will wet you: if you are not, you will remain dry. Once a man is united
to God, how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God, what
can he do but wither and die?”