We are living in time when all the wheels appear to be coming off Pharaoh’s chariots. But this should not distress us because we are Israelites, and we are already standing on the opposite shore.
We have forgotten that God frequently uses creative destruction in the advancement of His kingdom. Remember that the cross was His great victory, and it was cleverly disguised as a great disaster. So this should not distress us the way it frequently does. As G.K. Chesterton once put it in The Everlasting Man:
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.¹⁰
We have a great opportunity before us. As Aslan once said to Lucy, when things were especially dark, “Courage, dear heart.”
10. Christian Heritage Edition (Moscow, ID: CanonPress, 2020), 273.