The Horse And His Boy

1 John 5:14-15

...If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

Dear Readers,

Today I am going to ask you to remember the story of, "The horse and his boy" by C.S. Lewis. The story is about a young boy named Shasta who is escaping his master on a talking horse from Narnia. Together the horse (Bree) and Shasta go through many adventures and trials.  They race through desserts and meet up with two other runaways.  Towards the end of the book Shasta is walking on a path in the mountains talking to himself about how unfortunate he is.  He lists time after time in his life that something went wrong.  Then he realizes that something is walking at his side he asks this 'thing' who it is, 

  "One who has waited long for you to speak." The 'thing' answered him.  After talking with the creature Shasta eventually told 'It' all of his troubles.  The "thing" told Shasta that he had been there for each one of those trials. The "thing" was Aslan.

  God is like that for us.  We go through life looking at all of the "unfortunate" happenings often thinking we're alone.  We grumble and tell ourselves all kinds of lies about how bad our life really is.  We travel along this path until we  make the decision to open our eyes and see fact that someone is walking beside us.  Through each trial and struggle God is always with us.  

  Aslan opened Shasta's eyes when he told him of all the times in his past that he had been there.   The Lion had been there through all of the "unfortunate" things in Shasta's life and some way or another Aslan had made good come from each one.  

  God can do that for us.  He is here walking beside us waiting for us to speak, and when we speak he is there ready to listen.  He can and will make good come from the "unfortunate" things in our lives.  Showing us how he was there for the dark time times, and how he is here now.  

  He is ready and waiting.

  The only question is, are you going to speak?

~Megs

  "Who are you?" he said, scarcely above a whisper.

  "One who has waited long for you to speak," said the Thing.  Its voice was not loud, but very large and deep...."Tell me your sorrows."

~Taken from, "The horse and his boy" by C.S. Lewis~