God Is Not Quarintiend Or On Lockdown


Scripture and The Chronicles of Narnia both speak of God as being a lion.  Even Dinsey's The Lion King paints the picture the lion is the king of other animals.

It's easy to see how the lion can be used as an image for the powerfulness of a king.  Male lions can weigh up to 500 pounds, and stretch out to 10 feet long.  This beast moves about silently on soft paws with claws like shark teeth.  Thinking about running?  You better run faster than 50 miles an hour to escape.  And that jaw can open up1 foot, and can claps down at 650 pounds per square inch, which is used to eat 18 pounds of meat per day... 70 hamburgers!  Not only that, but the roar can be heard 2 miles away.

I'm not petitioning the lion is the most ferocious beast of all.  I am simply sharing the reasoning behind why the lion is considered a king of its domain and is used as a picture for kings.

I share this with you to reveal the wildness of this creature.  And as C. S. Lewis understands it, the untamable nature of our God is not safe, and yet he is good.

Our God is not on quarantine for sickness cannot affect God.  Nothing can lockdown our God for there is no chain or prison that can be made to contain even a portion of his glory.  God's presence is everywhere at all times and is powerful to save his people from every foe.  His voice travels further than 2 miles, in fact it fills the heavens and it cuts deeper and more precise than a surgeon's scalpel.  There is no other god than can contest to God's absolute authority.  And so people of God rise up from the ashes for your God is truly powerful to save us even from death.

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