CMP Review 2026-02-01

“Dare we venture to let our feeble thought attempt to search matters which the angels desired to look into?” So asks Charlotte Mason, before envisioning a scene in the throne room of heaven. “Perhaps we may, because it is the purpose of our God to reveal Himself to men, and it is only to open minds and willing hearts that such revelation is possible.”

A medieval mystic also envisioned a scene, in which God speaks to humanity: “I want you to realize, my children, that by Adam’s sinful disobedience the road was so broken up that no one could reach everlasting life… This sin sprouted thorns and troublesome vexations. My creatures found rebellion within themselves, for as soon as they rebelled against me, they became rebels against themselves… With sin there came at once the flood of a stormy river that beat against them constantly with its waves, bringing weariness and troubles from themselves as well as from the devil and the world. You were all drowning, because not one of you, for all your righteousness, could reach eternal life.”

All humanity was drowning, but voices were crying out for help. One tireless voice in particular “wearieth heaven with importunity.” In Mason’s vision, this voice is heard in the heavenly council. God and the angels discourse, and the result is the greatest announcement ever made. Read or hear the poem here.

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