Difficult Teaching

Ok, I'll be honest. I haven't read Williams' Descent into Hell however from what I have gathered in class what he says as a descent into hell is earth-shatteringly convicting. From what I understand, Williams has said that a descent into hell is when a person denies who they are and tries to live a life other than the one God has asked them to do. Similar to Orule in Lewis's Till we Have Faces Wentworth has convinced he is something that he is not. The descent into hell is that Orule and Wentworth have convinced themselves that they are something they are not.

When Jesus preached to the masses and told them they must "eat his flesh and drink his blood" to be children of God. He was instructing them to do what they were created to do. The crowd said that teaching was too difficult and then they left. Then, Jesus turns to the two at his side and asked if they were going to stay. Peter replied, "Lord, where else would we go? You alone have the bread of life". The connection to Lewis and Williams I will attempt to make is the masses who thought Christ's teaching was too hard were the ones who denied where the bread of life was-Orule and Wentworth. However, if Orule had a face and if Wentworth had not decended into Hell they would have lived the life Christ laid out for people to live. A life of self-sacrifice, humility, faith, and love. The life of self-sacrifice, humility, faith, and love is where the bread of life is.

The same question lies before myself and all of us each day. Will we choose to live the life Christ laid out for us to live, or will we begin the descent into hell by taking the wide and beaten path that leads to Hell. To eat the flesh and to drink the blood of Christ is no small task. In fact, it will take your life. Honestly. Your creditability, comfort, everything. What will we choose?