Too Easily Pleased

I've bumped up against this quote from time to time and I've found it helpful. It will probably make it into the sermon for Sunday so I thought I'd post it here.

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

C.S. Lewis
'The Weight of Glory'

This helps to distinguish between enjoying aspects of this fallen world (a good thing) and seeking satisfaction here (a bad thing). And that helps to define 'worldly'. Being worldly used to be defined by certain activities, like going to the movies or smoking a pipe. But that misses the point. Being worldly is trying to find satisfaction in some aspect of here. Satisfaction - as distinct from enjoyment - can only be found in the new heavens and the new earth. To try to find it here is to fall for Satan's lies and to fail to follow Jesus as well as you might. Trying to find satisfaction here will lead to idolatry.