Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Prince Caspian - "Make it Happen" People - #8011

Thursday, May 15, 2008

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The second of the Narnia movies, Prince Caspian's coming out, and there's a lot of attention again on C. S. Lewis's great books The Chronicles of Narnia. The king in Narnia is this seldom seen but all powerful majestic lion, Aslan. He's really the Christ figure in the story. Now, in Prince Caspian, Peter - who is the oldest of the children who discovered Narnia - is leading his little band of warriors and he's trying to find the enemies who threatened them all. And he passes up this fleeting chance to go with Aslan. The journey really gets to be tough, and he's not finding what he's looking for until he encounters face-to-face that lion king, Aslan. He drops to his knees, and in the book he says, "I am so sorry. I've been leading them wrong ever since we started."

I'm Ron Hutchcraft, and frankly that's been me too many times in my life. Oh, I knew where we needed to go, I knew how to get there, I have just taken some other people there only to end up tired and lost. It's a curse of "make it happen" people. We think we can fix everything, solve everything, plan everything, and make it happen. We were never meant to do that in a life that matters.

Jesus said, "Whoever follow me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life" (John 8:12 ). But you've got to follow Him. Like Peter in Prince Caspian, we've got a heart for the king, but we've got our hands on the wheel. I'm learning that if we want a life that matters, our job is to find out where Jesus is going and go with Him there. It's that wonderful release of going from the stress of being "make it happen" to the peace of "let it happen."

I want to invite you to our website, alifethatmatters.org, because God put you here to live a life that matters.

This radio program references: John 8:12