Homeless in Narnia
Friday is the day "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" will be shown in movie theatres across America. I predict it will be a blockbuster. The story revolves around four children entering a wintry world with no Christmas. Eventually a battle looms between the forces of the Witch and the Lion Aslan. C. S. Lewis, the Christian writer of The Chronicles of Narnia says this about Aslan..."Lewis insisted the Narnia books were not allegory-where things are meant to represent something else-but were supposal of how it might have gone if Christ had come to a world of animals and becomes one of them." (USA Today 12/02/05)
And that I think is the point of Christmas, Jesus leaving His home in heaven and becoming man.
"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a Son, and they will call Him Immanuel - which means God with us." -Matthew 1:23 How amazing is this!!! God becomes homeless for our sake. Just think of all He laid aside to be with us. The willingness to be born as a defenseless baby in a barn away from home (there it is again - Jesus was homeless at His birth)
is mind boggling.
May you this Christmas Season be caught up in the beauty of God becoming man whether it is through worship at Connections this Sunday evening (with the theme being "Homeless"), seeing the movie, or meditating on "Immanuel!"
These are the days my friend!
Jim "Train"
And that I think is the point of Christmas, Jesus leaving His home in heaven and becoming man.
"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a Son, and they will call Him Immanuel - which means God with us." -Matthew 1:23 How amazing is this!!! God becomes homeless for our sake. Just think of all He laid aside to be with us. The willingness to be born as a defenseless baby in a barn away from home (there it is again - Jesus was homeless at His birth)
is mind boggling.
May you this Christmas Season be caught up in the beauty of God becoming man whether it is through worship at Connections this Sunday evening (with the theme being "Homeless"), seeing the movie, or meditating on "Immanuel!"
These are the days my friend!
Jim "Train"
posted by Jim "Train" King at 9:02 AM
1 Comments:
I love the representation of Santa in Narnia. You know what (hey Steven), that is part of our tradition, so lets take what we have and turn it into something that we can witness to our families. We are always with them, but hardly ever witness. Now, with the theme of joy and love, this is the best time to talk with those you have loved forever and get things situated.
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