As I was reading The Four Loves of C.S. Lewis I began to realize that the introduction to this book was pivotal and possibly the most important part of the entire book. C.S. Lewis tells us essentially that our nearness to God comes in two manners: in our likeness to him (given to us freely and completely and does not actually change our nearness to him, even though it originally gives us an immediate nearness to him). Then there is our nearness by approach. This does change through life.
Our likeness of him is what we can see through our passionate (non-lust) love for another. If it is self-less and joyful and all of those it makes us near to God only in our likeness to Him, but not in approach. We falsely believe that because we are being more like God we are becoming more near to Him. My question is how can we become more like him during our life if he is not building it out in us as we get closer to Him and we are changed in our likeness as we see Him better and approach Him?
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