"...On the other hand, surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are more likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats, it only prevents them from hiding." (Mere Christianity, p.163)
I never really thought of it this way before, how when I act or react in ways I shouldn't (that is, ways that aren't Christlike) it isn't that I can be excused by having been caught off guard. No, rather, it's that my core self sprang up first. This is the self that needs to be traded in each instance for Christ-likeness, since it's a remainder of my old self which must not be allowed to remain.
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