"Ooh!" said Susa, "I'd thought he was a man. Is he….quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion."
"That you will dearie, and no mistake," said Mrs. Beaver, "if there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most or else a fool."
"Then he isn't safe?" Said Lucy.
"Safe??" said Mr. Beaver. "Don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he is king. And he is good!" – C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia
This is the passage that's had me in tears since late last night….. Of course He isn't safe….but He's king! and He.is.good!…..
There's a lot of things the Bible's never promises me that I hold onto so dearly as a sacred cow so to speak and I get so flustered when it doesn't work out like I strongly believed it would….Things like safety, comfortability, a normal life, structure, a way and a method that always works out of principle….the list could keep on going… And yet as much as I really like the idea of those things…. God never really promised me them…. He said "And lo, I will be with you always, even to the ends of the earth." He said that neither height nor depth, nor angels, nor demons, nor heaven, nor hell, nor anything in all creation could seperate me from His love. He promised me sonship, the world as my inheritance, His Holy Spirit, and that I could do everything He did and greater works than these…. He's not safe…. He's not something I can compartmentalize….something I can form to justify my needs or fit my lifestyle…. He's a lion, THE lion, His love is absolutely uncontainable and unfathomable, and all around unwordable….
He has more faith in me than I have in myself, even at my highest points. He's placed His same spirit, the Spirit that conquered the grave, and put it inside of me….and it's all around the most humbling experience imaginable…. not in the sense of me belittling myself to not appear prideful….but real, genuine humility…. being so overwhelmed by the fact that the same Master Artist who created the universe and all the stars and all the species of plants and all the species of animals and sunsets and sunrises and the northern lights and the songs of frogs at night….took the time not only to imagine me….but to breath me into existance and then put His name on me…. That's true humility….it's that I have a God who is a Lion! And He is fierce! And He is just! And He is King! And He is good!…..and He's chosen me and said that nobody else can love Him and minister to Him like I can….and that my worship is like a sweet fragrance and perform, that He dances over me…
And He thinks the exact same thing about you….
