His Blood Resurrects Us

(This post is part of a series of posts about The Chronicles of Narnia.)

At the end of The Silver Chair, the Lion Aslan brings Eustace and Jill back from Narnia to his own country, which is beyond all worlds. There they see in a stream the body of the aged King Caspian, who has just died; they can still hear the sad music playing. Aslan tells Eustace to pluck a foot-long, very sharp thorn from a nearby bush. Aslan asks Eustace to drive the thorn into his paw. Eustace is reluctant, but knows he must obey.

Then Eustace set his teeth and drove the thorn into the Lion's pad. And there came out a great drop of blood, redder than all redness that you have ever seen or imagined. And it splashed into the stream over the dead body of the King. At the same moment the doleful music stopped. And the dead King began to be changed. His white beard turned to grey, and from grey to yellow, and got shorter and vanished altogether; and his sunken cheeks grew round and fresh, and the wrinkles were smoothed, and his eyes opened, and his eyes and lips both laughed, and suddenly he leaped up and stood before them—a very young man, or a boy.... And he rushed to Aslan and flung his arms as far as they would go around the huge neck; and he gave Aslan the strong kisses of a King, and Aslan gave him the wild kisses of a Lion.

When Aslan gives his own blood, Caspian is brought back to life. And because Christ has given his own blood, we can be brought back to life after we die. The doleful music will stop once we have arrived in Christ's country and our new life starts. Christ will remake us into new people. We will leap up and stand before Christ, laughing.

Caspian had hard times in his life, and we may have many hard times in ours. But when we arrive in Christ's country, there will be no more tears. There will be the strong kisses that we offer to our Savior and Lord and the wild Lion kisses that he gives back to us, and then joy forevermore.