In anticipation of the first intallment of the Chronicles of Naria movie, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” due out on December 6th (Watch the trailor here), I started to read the Chronicles all over again. In the books, there is a character named Aslan who, by and large, represents Christ. As a couple of beavers and the children are talking with each other, the following dialogue about Aslan takes place:
“Aslan is a lion-the Lion, the great Lion.”
“Ooh!” said Susan, “I’d thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.”
“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
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Safe talk about safe,everyone these days just wants to be fricken safe. The church is stail because all we want to be is safe. We always want to be safe and comforted by him. Today at school Denise was talking to the kids about the bible and she stopped for a moment and told the kids,she could not talk about the good news because she would loose her job. Conversation went on and she began looking up scripture and I said to myself well if we go down we go down together. In that moment I did not care about being safe, it was an opportunity to anounce the kingdom and I wasn’t thinking about being safe. The king is not saying it will be safe, what he is saying is that he is there and somehow if he is there we are gonna be just fine.
On a side note I think that the problem with the church today is that people are perishing all around us, many of us are just fine with the way things are! We are not desinged to live without hope. We are called to remind people that tomorrow can be better than today.
Posted by Anonymous
That was from I!
Sweet story Mark. In the words of Bilbo Baggins, following Christ is “a dangerous business… You step out onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
Posted by Ryan
Thanks for this Ryan. Safety is a relative term. In places where I feel safe I am not necessarily so. Other places that seem dangerous are actually safe. My own mind is rarely a safe place. To walk with Jesus doesn’t guarantee comfort as defined by the absence of change and comfort isn’t necessarily safe. At the same time I am ultimately safe in my Father’s care. I must trust this or I am doomed to live in a constant state of anxiety (which I used to, now it’s more fleeting). So the “comfort” is not that things will appear safe but that I am safe in Him.
That I may learn to be “content in whatever state I am in,” as Paul said.
Posted by michel cicero