You all know how much I love C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia". Recently I've been remembering a scene from the "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader".
In the book one of the characters, Eustace, has to learn some very hard lessons about what's really important and focusing on others instead of himself. Unfortunately most of these lessons are learned after he's turned into a dragon which a pretty terrible experience for him. The part I want to focus in on though is how he turns back into a boy instead of a dragon.
Eustace is led by Aslan to this pool. Aslan, takes his claw and cuts the rough hide of Eustace's dragon skin and tells him to wash it off. This process is repeated a few times before Aslan cuts him once more, deeply, so deep that Eustace isn't sure he'll survive. Eustace describes the horror and pain of the cut but when he washes he's transformed, the pain is washed away and he turns from a dragon back into a boy.
It's that process of skin being cut and peeled back that I want to talk about today.
Change is painful. Sometimes extremely painful. Changing, submitting to God, is the most amazing experience we ever go through but that doesn't mean it's not painful. Like Eustace when we submit ourselves to God we go through a time of pain. It's only when we are washed by the blood of Christ that the pain is taken away and we are clean. Transformed.
Kind of like turning from a dragon into a boy again.
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