The Real Narnia

I know it's sad, but until this summer, I had never read the Narnia series. I read the first two when I was younger, but got bored with The Horse and his Boy and stopped. This summer, I decided that I was going to read the series. Boy am I glad I did. The cool this is that I'm reading the book Heaven by Randy Alcorn at the same time, and the two flow beautifully together. While reading Heaven, I have learned so much about the New Earth. And right now, my vision of that is what I picture Narnia to be in a way. I can't wait until we see the earth we know as the earth it was originally intended to be. To be able to live in Eden. To walk with Jesus and fall at His feel and worship Him in a way that is incomprehensible right now.

I love that Narnia is fiction, and yet so much of it is real. At the end of the last book, when Narnia disappears and they enter the new Narnia, I was almost in tears. I cannot wait for that day. It is such a beautiful picture, and it is not fiction. Well, Narnia itself is, but what was happening really will happen one day. We will leave this world, and those in the current heaven, or the land of Aslan, will be reunited together in this new Earth. And we will be perfect. Everything will be perfect. No pain, no suffering... only joy. Pure joy. Can you imagine?

I must admit, I used to be afraid of death. I didn't want the rapture to happen while I was alive, because I didn't understand it. I was afraid to give up my life here, to not get to experience things here before going on to heaven. But it's not like that at all. It will be earth. It will be life. Only better. Only perfect. Only with Him.