Triple C News - January 20
Hey, everyone! Or better yet…
Hey, child of God! (Ephesians 1:5)
Hey, brother or sister of Jesus! (Hebrews 2:11)
Hey, heir of God! (Romans 8:17)
Hey, joint-heir of Christ! (Romans 8:17 again)
Hey, chosen one of God! Ephesians 1:11
Hey, beloved one (Ephesians 4:2)!
Hey, citizen of Heaven! (Philippians 3:20))
Hey, child of light! (Ephesians 5:8)
Hey, joy and crown! (Philippians 4:1)
Hey, holy saint of God! (Romans 1:7, 1 Corinthians 1:2, Colossians 1:1, and many more!)
“Who?? Me!?” Yes!! YOU!!
Because (and ever since) you trusted in Jesus…
whether you know it or not…
whether you feel it or not…
all these titles are true of you! And more!!
“Wow! All that seems almost too good to be true!”
Exactly! Yet, it is!! It’s all super-true!! Almost like a fairy-tale-come-true!
One of my favs ever, British scholar C. S. Lewis, or “Jack” (as his friends called him) was…
after Winston Churchill’s…
the second most recognizable voice in England during the War as his BBC radio talks helped a frightened and grieving nation discover that faith in the God of the Good News of Jesus was the surest and swiftest way to courage and hope in dark times.
He wrote 34 books from 1931 and 1962, including the Narnia stories for kids (and for others like me!) about a frozen world beyond our world and a Lion Who melted it and remade it with His powerful love.
C S Lewis explained to a class of 5th graders that Aslan didn’t strictly “represent” Jesus but rather…
”Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia and that the Son of God, as He became a Man in our world, became a Lion there, and then imagine what would happen.”
His own story was almost a story “too good to be true”!
An atheist and the world’s leading expert on medieval literature, he opened his heart to Jesus because…
as a scholar of ancient stories…
he found the story of Jesus a story too good to be…untrue!
There was a woman named Maureen whom C S Lewis had helped to raise. They stayed in contact thru the years and in February, 1963, Maureen discovered that a distant and to her, unknown relative…
Sir George Cospatrick Duff-Sutherland-Dunbar of Hempriggs…
had died of old age.
And he had no wife or kids or heir…except Maureen!
She instantly became the Baroness Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs and owner of the ancient Dunbar Castle in Scotland!
When she went to visit Jack in the hospital as he was dying, she was warned that he was incoherent and didn’t recognize anyone. As she slipped quietly into the room, put her hand in his and whispered, “Jack. It’s Maureen,” he greeted her feebly but resolutely…
“Lady Dunbar!”
Amazed, she replied,“Oh, Jack! How could you remember that?!”
“On the contrary,’ he whispered. “How could I forget a fairy tale?”