Introduction

We can relate to Edmund’s insecurity. We have a need for an identity as people who are loved by God. In this study, we will discuss how people react to insecurities and we will be reminded of the value and identity people have in Christ.

 

Study

In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, read chapter nine, beginning on page 95 with the last paragraph, which begins with, “Edmund crept up to the arch and looked inside...” Read to page 95, ending with the sentence, “He turned away and began to cross the courtyard.”

 

Ask the following questions:

•      In the scene from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe we looked at last time, Edmund went from fearful to comfortable in the presence of the White Witch. What emotions is Edmund experiencing at the beginning of the scene we just read?

                       

•      How does Edmund’s demeanour change throughout the scene with the stone lion?

                       

•      What prompts the change in Edmund?

                       

•      Why is it that Edmund is not simply relieved? Why do you think he goes so far as to mock this statue?             

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•      How does Edmund’s behaviour reveal insecurities about himself?

                     

•      What is the connection between these Bible verses and what we see in Edmund in this scene?             

 

Galatians 6:3: If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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Luke 18:11: The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: “God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.”

                       

•      Edmund is struggling with his own value and identity. We all struggle with our own value and identity from time to time. How would you complete this statement for yourself? When I am struggling with my own value I tend to…

…brag?

…gossip?

…use sarcasm?

…shop?

…shy away from others?

…put others down?

…_____________?

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•      We struggle with our own value and identity when we lose site of the identity we have in Christ. What do the following verses tell us about the identity we have been given in Jesus?

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II Corinthians 3:5: What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task.

Our value comes from God, not from ourselves.

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Romans 12:3: For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.

We should be humble in how we think of ourselves.

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Zephaniah 3:17: The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. God loves us. He celebrates over us as he makes us His own.

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Ephesians 2:4-9: But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.