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Today I went to see Chronicles of Narnia with my sister. Although I am generally well read with most childrens stories this is a book which i have never read entirely. I have heard many different reviews concerning the movie. I think it is something everyone should experience in the theatre. That being said I am going to talk about not the movie but how the movie was what I needed to see. How it was an encouragement to me.

You see in the movie satan is personified by the White Witch. What the white witch wants to do is destroy the prophesy and maintain power and she will do whatever she can to achieve that. Mostly what she does is decieve anyone who will listen. As children of God we must be ever watchful to not listen to those lies. Edmund desires to be happy and he is frustrated and so he listens to her and it lands him in a lot of trouble.


Luckily for Edmund there is Aslan. We too have Aslan in Jesus of course.

What stuck me most was the scene after the sacrifice was made and after the White Witch was defeated when Aslan is crowning the children, his children, and they are reigning with him. You see these children came to a place they did not understand and they wanted to give up but they didn't. They were homeless and parentless and Aslan adopted them and gave them a purpose greater then anything they had ever imagined. It didn't make sense the things that they were doing but they chose to do them. He used them, even Edmund who had not been perfect. He allowed them to be a part of fufilling something greater then themselves.
It is that message, that if we begin to shut out the lies of the white witch and with boldness take up our armor we can defeat whatever evil lies all around us. It is to late to go back, we must press on and when we need it Aslan will defend us. He has already sacrificed for our salvation. He doesn't want us because we are perfect but simply because he has chosen us.

He has chosen us to be His.

Ephesians 1:4-6 (New International Version)

4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, inaccordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

My prayer tonight is we remember who we are: Sons and Daughters of the King. It might get tough in the days to come but if we remember who we belong to no evil is to great to overcome.

posted by Kate @ 12/16/2005 07:37:00 PM