I love watching movies. I love movies where you can take a scene and apply it to biblical truth. I guess I learned how to do that from a close friend. But if you have ever seen any of "The Chronicle of Narnia" movies, you know that there scenes through out the movie - especially since CS Lewis wrote the books that way. The first time I watched the movie, I was sitting in the theater with a friend of mine - we decided to do a double-feature night - and I remember the scene where Lucy is forced to go into library to find the spell book to make the unseen seen. She finds a spell to change herself into something beautiful -her sister. After a few more scenes, Lucy dreams of becoming Susan and in return no one had heard of Lucy. Here's my FAVORITE scene is all 3 movies:
Aslan: Lucy
Lucy: Aslan?
Aslan: what have you done child?
Lucy: I don't know, that was awful.
Aslan: but you chose it, Lucy.
Lucy: I didn't mean to choose all of that, I just wanted to be beautiful like Susan. That's all
Aslan: You wished yourself away and with it much more. Your brothers and sisters wouldn't know Narnia without you, Lucy. you discovered it first, remember?
Lucy: I’m so sorry.
Aslan: You doubt your value, don't run from who you are
I cried that night in the theater when I watched this scene, because how many times do we wish to be someone else? How many times do we doubt our value. How many times do we run from who we are? If we run from who we are, how do we really find out who we are? We won't have any true identity.
True identity is what people are searching for and desiring. But we are looking in the wrong areas to find it. God created each of us uniquely and personalized us. He created us (Psalm 139) and in order to find our identity, we have to ask our Creator and find out about His characteristics. As we spend time with our Creator, we will learn His characteristics and see how He knitted them inside us and yet kept us all unique. I love that no matter how far along in our walk with Him, if we desire, He will take us deeper.
I pray that 2012, is a year where the sons and daughters of God will begin or continue their journey to find their true identity and not to doubt their value.
