i have been reading the lion the witch and the wardrobe for a while now. i read it when i was younger but now it takes on so much more meaning. c.s. lewis is so good. so here is the quote that got me today.

“You have a traitor there, Aslan,” said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he’d been through and after the talk he’d had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn’t seem to matter what the witch said.”

when i read this i pretty much just shut my book and sat back to think. this quote is so true about our relationship with Christ. well, it is how our relationship should be. you see, edmund had basically gotten sucked in to the witches “promises” and betrayed his siblings and neglected the promises that were to come to him. the promise of being a king of narnia. all of edmunds siblings had met and encountered the real King, Aslan, but edmund had not due to the fact that he had followed after the empty promises of the white witch. when the time came and edmund met Aslan, he was floored. the beauty of this real King had all of his attention. when the white witch, edmund and Aslan were together, edmunds attention was solely on Aslan even though the witch, who had previously captured edmunds heart, was present.

at the beginning of this quote, the white witch reminds edmund of his past. this is so true in our lives as believers. satan always rears his silly little head and reminds us of who we once were. he reminds us of all those times we have screwed up, all those times we have blown it. but in this scene edmunds actions show that Jesus is more beautiful than his past.

so that is my prayer for myself and for anyone else who is a believer. that we would see Jesus as so beautiful that even when satan reminds us of our past, we can’t take our eyes off of Him.