Kelsey Garegnani - kings

Shasta in The Horse and His Boy is an orphan and is taken in by a fisherman. He is mistreated and abused growing up even though he has royal blood. He doesn’t seem to expect anything better because he doesn’t know he is royalty. The whole time though, while he is obedient to his “dad” he longs for affection and love. Only when he meets his real father and brother does everything seem to really fit. It becomes like the way it was supposed to be. And he learns, form his new father how to be a great king. I think that this is a story which parallels our story in finding Christ. Before we know God we live on our sin not knowing there is something better for us. We are abused by this world and things we look to in it. We think we can belong certain places but they only let us down in our search for love and affection. Some people think they are worthless and think they do not deserve anything better. But, we are of royal blood being made in the image of God. When we meet God and are accepted into his family everything seems like we were made for this…because we were! And we, being adopted into this new family start to learn form our heavenly father how to be great kings as well.