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Always Winter and Never Christmas
As I continue to reflect on Lewis' story The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe I have been considering what it was like to live in a world where it is always Winter and never Christmas. As we have just finished the Advent season where we await the coming of God in the flesh, we remember what it was like for those living before Jesus and our own lives before we hailed Jesus as King of Everything. I remember what darkness and cold were like living without the reality of the greatest Christmas gift ever.
We must remember that there are still those who live in a world where it is always Winter and never Christmas. It is this world that they know, the world that is always in Winter and never celebrating Christmas, that we have opportunity to enter. We step through the Wardrobe as Lucy did into the colder winter that the White Witch has kept the world in. We may want to grab our coat to stay warm as we travel to Mr. Tumnus' home or the Beavers' dam.
We are able to remind others of the prophecy of old that tells of Aslan coming to the world and putting everything to rights. The world has experienced and we continue to experience Jesus coming into the world, God in the flesh. He inaugurated His Kingdom in the first century and today He reigns over all of creation. Christmas has come. We can tell the whole world that Winter is fading. Christmas has come and Spring is around the corner.
