Humility and Majesty

Haven't posted here in ages...I feel like a stranger coming back on!

Over this past Easter weekend, I was struck by the contrast between the humility through and with which Jesus was crucified, and the majesty and grandeur of His resurrection. In trying to get my thoughts together for last night's service, I was reminded of this passage in C.S. Lewis' 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', where this humility and this majesty are portrayed so well. I know it isn't the Bible but I just love this passage...

'Bind Him, I say!' said the White Witch. The Hags made a dart at him and shrieked with triumph when they found that he had made no resistance at all. Then others rushed in to help them, and between them they rolled the huge Lion over on his back and tied all his four paws together, shouting and cheering as if they had done something brave, though, had the Lion chosen, one of those paws could have been the death of them all. 'Oh, how can they?' said Lucy, tears streaming down her cheeks...for now that the first shock was over the Shorn face of Aslan looked to her, braver, and more beautiful and more patient than ever.'


When they find Aslan's body to be gone from the Stone Table, Susan asks, 'who's done it? What does it mean? Is it magic?' 'Yes!' said a great voice from behind their backs. 'It is more than magic. Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did know. If she could have looked back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would start working backwards.'

''Death is crushed to death, life is mine to live, won through your sefless love''