Narnia: Understanding The Supernatural Series

I still remember the magic of that night.

But at some point, I don’t remember exactly when, I stopped believing in Santa Claus. And Christmas for a long time, no longer captivated me with that kind of wonder, awe and excitement. In fact I became cynical about it, discouraged and depressed about how selfish and commercial Christmas was.

What happened was once I started to gain a level of earthly wisdom the supernatural was eased out and all that was left was the natural. And the natural held no magic, held no wonder…held no joy.

This leads us to one the main principles of this series: The more deeply we enter in the natural the more we distance ourselves from the supernatural.

CS Lewis writes “"The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think."

Our challenge is going to be this - How do we rediscover the supernatural? Well we must be open, we must be willing to be retaught, we must admit that our understanding is not complete or the final authority, we must believe. Look what Jesus says:

[Jesus] "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” - Matthew 18:3

We will never discover the supernatural that exists in this life or the eternal life we are promised through Jesus if we do not lay down our natural understanding take on the qualities of a child; humble, teachable, helpless.

There is one other human character in Narnia that is worth mentioning. It is the character of Uncle Andrew. He is found in the story of The Magicians Nephew. In the story Uncle Andrew is unable to recognize the supernatural wonders in the land of Narnia. He does not hear words coming from the talking animals but only growling. He misses out entirely of the magic of Narnia and only experiences fear. Why because he refused to believe…because he only sees the natural….because all he thinks about is how he could use Narnia for his own advantage.

What supernatural signs are we missing because we refuse to believe, because we only see this world as something that we can take from?

In Matthew 13 there is a passage where Jesus only does a few miracles because the people in his hometown do not believe in Him.

Let’s not miss out all of God’s supernatural power and miracles because we are too stubborn, too proud, too pragmatic, too hurried to believe.

The next character of note is

2. The White Witch

The White Witch is the protagonist in Narnia. She is evil to the core, without even a hint of goodness within her. We going to spend a whole message in a couple weeks talking about the witch but for now its important to know that she is merciless, cruel, power-hungry, and sadistic. The Witch claims the throne of Narnia by brute force. She enchants the land so it is always winter.

The Witch controls and influences the world through fear and lust for power. Sound like anyone we know? Sounds a little like the devil doesn’t it?

In the bible the devil has many names; Satan being the most prominent. In the book of John he is called “The Prince of this world.” Isn’t that interesting? He is given this title because he tries to rule us and to control us by using the natural to keep us from the supernatural.