learnaboutgod

There are two secret worlds to Narnia. One is the wardrobe that the children enter into when they discover Narnia. The other is the truth of God in the Bible. This second secret is far greater than Narnia because it relates to Jesus and how much He loves us. This second secret is the reason that the author, C.S. Lewis, wrote the Narnia books.

In the Bible, Revelation 7:14 calls Jesus Christ the “lion of the tribe of Judah.” Aslan is meant to represent Jesus Christ, God’s Son. Narnia is like the spiritual world. It is frozen because there is a curse of evil upon it. In some ways, that is like our world today because although there is beauty underneath and sometimes good, there is also a cloud of evil over this world that causes so much pain, suffering and waste.

The first question for many of us might be the universal question of, “Do I have worth and value?”  If that question is answered yes, because we understand that God loves us and accepts us just the way we are, the next question, in practical terms, might be, “Will my future be good?”

Most of us might naturally think things work in the reverse order, i.e., if I have a good future, then I have worth and value.  This is probably what motivates many of us to succeed.  It can be insecurity based.  But with God, if we really understand what He’s saying to us, there’s no room for insecurity in our lives.

When my wife was a little girl, she worried that God might suddenly take all the good people away to Heaven, but leave her here.  Whenever she had this fear, she would call her grandmother.  She didn’t want to talk because as soon as her grandmother answered, she hung up.

“Why did you do that?”, I asked.  
“Because if my grandmother was still here, I knew I was safe because God wouldn’t take all the people who believed in Him away and leave her behind.”
“How often did you call her like that?” I asked.
“Enough so that my family talked about that mysterious person who kept calling her and hanging up,” she said.

That’s a lot of worrying.  But maybe we understand our own salvation in a similar way.  We go by what we feel.  If we do something wrong, we feel that we are not good enough to know God.