..... But He is Good

The past few weeks my mind has been wandering back to Turkey. It was almost exactly two years ago that I boarded a plane in Calgary Alberta headed for Turkey. I had no idea what to expect. None of us on my team did. We went with the intent of putting into practice all that we had learned in the past three months during the lecture phase of our YWAM discipleship training school and seeing the Kingdom of God come in a foreign country. Our purpose was to be Christ in this predominately Muslim nation. We didn't know how we were going to do this, and even more so, we had no idea what God was going to do in us.

He's Not Safe......

(Part one of my musings on the Goodness of God)

“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you. - from "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis.

This is one of my absolute favorite quotes. For those of you reading this who many not know, C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia books as an allegory about Jesus. Aslan represents Jesus. (Random fact, aslan means lion in Turkish).  What a beautiful and true thing to say about Jesus/God. Of course He isn't safe. But He is good!!!