YOU’RE LUCKY YOU KNOW

(Post by: Lilly Hobbs)

As many of you know quite well, I love anything and everything C. S. Lewis has written. He has inspired more than a few of our blog posts, as well as podcast episodes, here at The Few and has challenged me (perhaps more so than any other writer/theologian) to go beyond the surface level Christianity many modern people are settling for today.

His way with words has been a constant reassurance to me that there is indeed another world that matters much more than the one in which we currently reside. Here’s another blog post that may be helpful to you regarding that specific topic: https://thefew.blog/2023/12/28/another-world-2/

This past weekend, my family and I sat down to watch Prince Caspian, one of the movies in The Chronicles of Narnia series which is based on Lewis’s original books.

It had been some time since I had last watched the movie, and there was one part in particular that really moved me. One part I have been deeply contemplating for the entirety of this week.

First, allow me to give you some background, or this interesting dialogue between Lucy Pevensie and her brother Peter (two of the main characters), won’t make much sense…

In the movie, the Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to, once again, help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land’s throne, Prince Caspian.

The process, however, isn’t at all easy and Peter begins to rely upon himself to resolve the conflicts that arise and to devise a plan for how they will conquer this evil king.

Those in Narnia hadn’t heard nor seen Aslan (who is a representation of Jesus) in quite some time, and many had grown weary and lost hope in the meantime.

Peter, being the high king of Narnia, and the oldest sibling, takes it upon himself to set things right again, and we watch as he forgets that the only solution to their countless problems is the return and help of Aslan.

Lucy (the youngest sibling), on the other hand, has not lost hope and believes that Aslan will return and intervene on behalf of his beloved land of Narnia.

It is only after they have tried to attack their enemy and lost many Narnians, had many disagreements about leadership choices, and almost given in to the evil that is trying to overtake them, that Peter finally comes to the realization that what he is doing isn’t working.

He is incapable on his own.

Then, Peter and Lucy have a very short, but convicting interaction. Peter is sitting against the stone table, where Aslan triumphed over death, and is staring at the wall before him in which a stone engraving of Aslan is embedded.

Noticing he is anxious, Lucy walks up beside him and sits down. Peter tells her, “You’re lucky you know.”

Lucy, confused, responds by asking, “What do you mean?”

To which Peter says, “You’ve seen him. I wish he’d just give me some sort of proof.”

After thinking for a brief moment, Lucy brilliantly states, “Maybe we’re the ones who need to prove ourselves to him.”

I am unsure of what kind of season of life you may be in right now, but I believe this is something many of us need to hear today.

Maybe you have been a lot more like Peter recently than you’d like to admit. I know I have. We let our natural tendency to do everything/make every decision on our own override what we know we should do which is turn to the Lord and seek His help.

The Lord hasn’t called us to take matters into our own hands. We prove ourselves to Him by recognizing how desperately we need Him.

Maybe Lucy is right.

Perhaps just like Peter, our mindset is all wrong.

Lucy wasn’t “lucky to know”. She was simply trusting that Aslan hadn’t and wouldn’t abandon them, and it was in this act that she was proving herself to Aslan. This provided her with the hope and courage she needed for the future challenges they were about to face.

Guess who Aslan revealed Himself to first?

“The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.”  (C. S. Lewis)

SO, WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE?

= Are you trying to do everything in your own power?

= Are you staying focused on the hope of eternity?

= What are you going to do differently?