Thanking God for my Eustace Adventure

In his The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis gives us a very telling picture of where all of us are in life post-conversion. Until this point, the young boy name Eustace has been a quite unbearable companion for those unfortunate enough to be on board the Dawn Treader. In an episode of the story where Eustace sneaks away to avoid helping repair the ship, he finds himself outwardly what he has always been in his heart: a dragon. This is quite disturbing to Eustace, because he can longer talk and feels desperately lonely. It seems that Eustace will forever be condemned to go on alone, when suddenly (Thanks to Aslan) he is turned back into a boy. Everyone around him notices the being a dragon has done Eustace some good. Summing up Eustace's little adventure Lewis writes, "It would be nice, and fairly true, to say that 'from that time forth Eustace was a different boy'. To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun. "

Colossians 1:27 tells us of this cure. "Which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." Hold fast to the Gospel and do not despair of glory (holiness) because by the grace of God you are what you are, and his grace toward you is not in vain. On the contrary, work harder than before, because it is not you, but the grace of God that is with you. (1 Cor 15).