When We Fix Our Eyes on Him

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

Yesterday I wrote about an episode where the Pevensie children are crossing Narnia, trying to find Prince Caspian and his followers. On the way, Lucy encounters Aslan, and he tells her that she has to instruct her brothers and sister, and Trumpkin the Dwarf, to follow him. But the others won't see Aslan at first—only Lucy will see him—and they probably won't believe her.

This is in fact how it turns out. However, since going their own way hasn't worked out very well for them, and because of some other factors, the others decide to follow Lucy. But they aren't very cheerful about it. And Susan says some unkind things to boot. Lewis writes,

And so at last they got on the move. Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot about them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.

It turns out that way for us a lot, too. People say things to us that we feel are uncalled for. They do things that are unfair. There are plenty of things that we'd like to say. There are lots of things that we'd like to do in exchange. But they aren't the right things to do or say.

We can forget about those things if we fix our eyes on Christ. He is all that we need to see, and he helps us remember what is right.

After Lucy had followed Aslan for a while, the others started to see him too, one by one. Lucy's faithfulness not only brought the others to safety through Narnia, but also brought them back into relationship with Aslan.

That's what will happen when we keep our eyes fixed on Christ. Not only can we forget about the wrong things we want to say and do, but we can help others too. Keeping our eyes fixed on him is what we need.