Lewis says that the sure thing is the grace of God, and that all else fails. The world is always turning on iconoclasm it never measures up. The offense is due to our expectation of what messiah-ship should look like. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of his presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example it leaves all previous ideas of the Messiah in ruins.” “My idea of God is not a divine idea, he says in A Grief Observed. In the same way he says that he needs Christ and not something that resembles him and that his own ideas and images of God can provide a false construct. No resemblance or icon that approaches her likeness is enough. In writing through the pain of losing his wife, Lewis says that a picture is not good enough.
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