Not Tame

Not Tame

“He is not a tame lion...but he is good” is how C.S. Lewis describes Aslan in his classic “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe". Aslan, of course, represents Christ and by this succinct description Lewis unveils a paradoxical side of God with which so many of us struggle. Our God is good, so very good; but he is not tame; certainly if one were to define “tame” as predictable. The poet William Cowper was spot on when he wrote: “God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform”; in a similar vein the apostle Paul writes: “How unsearchable his judgements, and his paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord?”

Not Tame