By now I'm guessing everyone has seen Narnia, so I am going to put down some thoughts on it all. In the movie the words I am going to write about are spoken by Mr. Tumnas, but in the book they are said by Mr Beaver. "He'll drop in. Only don't press him. He's wild you know. Not like a tame lion." There is so much truth in those words. Aslan operates on this own time table. We can not force him to make any changes to His plans. He will always come and go as He pleases, never doing as we want, but always doing what He knows to be best for us all. The Great Lion will always do what is best for His kingdom. You can never predict what Aslan will do next or where He will show up. He demands nothing less of us then everything. He takes us as we are, as He did to the children, molding us into Kings and Queens. That's what the saints are Kings and Queens in Heaven.
Aslan says to us all, "You must come to know me now by another name in your world." All of us must come to realize that Aslan is Christ. His other name is the name above all other names to which all knees will bend (Phl. 2:19). Everything about Aslan can be said about Christ, since they are one. Christ is not tame by any means. Anyone who reads the Beatitudes without fear and trembling is a fool. We can get through the Ten commandments batting at least 500. But in the Beatitudes no matter who we are our batting average goes to nothing. Because then adultry, for example, becomes "That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart" (Matt. 5:28). That is a conviction to us all, if that one doesn't get us something else in there will. Christ wants us to become His little children, His precious ones. Aslan is away for us to know Christ, but we must make the crossover into our world from Narnia. Just as we must not leave Christ in the Church on Sunday morning. He wants the whole of our life, not just an hour or so a day. Are you willing to give it? Does it scare you? It should scare you. Become a King or Queen nothing less then this is demanded of you. If you do not want to be a King or Queen it is because you do not fully want to be (a paraphrase of William Law's statment about becomming saints). The Lion's roar will ring loud and true in your life if you open your ears to hear.
2 comments:
Em, your not the only one that scene made cry. ditto for me
Your keeping up with me on number of times seeing it. I saw it again with my family. It's an awesome movie, by far my favorite
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