But I wonder whether the people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does.
When it happens, it is the end of the world.
When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the wold natural universe melting away like a dream and something else- something it never entered your head to conceive-comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time God will be without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature.
It will be too late to choose your side.
There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it or not.
Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side.
God is holding back to give us that chance.
It will not last for ever.
We must take it or leave it.
