by A#minor » April 18th, 2006, 9:56 pm
You ought to read Mere Christianity, and especially the chapter entitled Nice People or New Men talks about gifts from God and our use of them.
Here's a bit of it:
"You cannot expect God to look at Dick's placid temper and friendly disposition exactly as we do. They result from natural causes which God Himself creates. Being merely tempermental, they will all disappear if Dick's digestion alters. The niceness, in fact, is God's gift to Dick, not Dick's gift to God."
One might go further to say that Lewis' writing ability is, in fact, God's gift to Lewis, not Lewis' gift to God.
Hope this helps. God Bless.
"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton