The night when the pain seemed too much to bare, He saw a lion who called him. The boy didn’t know who Aslan was but followed Him up the hill to the water fountain.
To dive in and ease his pain Eustace had to undressed: get rid of his dragon skin (That was the lion’s order) After many unsuccesful tries, the boy let Aslan use his big and powerful claws, which cause him a greater pain, but It didn’t last long. His dragoned like look had disappeared. He was now a boy again, swimming in clean waters.
C.S. Lewis’ story about Eustace's adventure is valid today more than ever. We can all identify with the Scrubb boy, with his pride and avarice, and even with the pain that an incrusted object causes in our hard , scaly skin.
We are sinners, our looks are far from what they shoud be. However, it’s only when the Savior offers His help that we understand that there’s a way out, a painful way.
Even though Eustace tried, with his paws and teeth, to get rid of his skin, it came back (regenerated). The same happens with our selfhelp methods (from religions to “Who moved my cheese?”), they never get to the source of our problem: sin.
Only the cross of Christ and a personal relationship with this God-man can, like Aslan's claws, break through sin’s darkest and thickest skin.
The godliness life that God wants for us (obedience to His word, complete worship, loving our neighbor) are hard, why not say, even painful (there are many things we give up when we are in Christ). but that pain doesn't last long. What’s next is enjoying the clean waters and the nail-pierced hands of our Savior dressing us with new cloths, just like he did with eustace, the undragoned boy in Narnia.
Paul the apostle, another with scaly skin, said:
What a miserable man I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death?25 I thank God for saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7:24-25a (NCV)
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