Danger to Come
- CMW
- May 31, 2016
- 1 min read
“In the future you will see me, the Son of Man, sitting at God’s right hand in the place of power and coming back on the clouds of heaven.”
Matthew 26:64
• In one of C. S. Lewis’s fiction books for children, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Aslan the Lion is a God figure. Little Lucy contemplates what it will be like to meet him, asking, “Is he . . . quite safe?” The answer comes: “’Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” In another part of the book, we read, “At the name of Aslan, each one of the children felt something jump in his inside. Edmund felt a sensation of mysterious horror.” It makes me think: What is it about God, or the life God has given me—so risky and unsafe—that I need to face squarely today? Isn’t it better to stay in direct contact with hard truth than to slide through life clinging to sentimental self-deceptions? Jesus will return as Savior . . . and Judge. —
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