In his wonderful
book 'Called to Create' Jordan Raynor points out something really interesting about how C.S. Lewis crafted his famous Narnia stories.
He shows that Lewis did NOT just sit down and try to figure out an allegory that would teach Christian truth to children...
Rather, Lewis began to see pictures in his head long before there was a story.
For example, when Lewis was just sixteen he began to see a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and packages in a snowy wood.
Then
finally, when Lewis was about forty, he set out to make a story of this image... and when a picture of Aslan -- the Christ figure -- came into his mind, the story we know as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was on its way to coming together.
Fascinating.
Now, of course, God made all of us to think in pictures.
And the challenge for us is to take the pictures of our minds and have them to somehow contribute to the story of redemption God is working out in the
world today.
And the only to do that is to have God's Word dwell in our hearts so that it would shape the pictures we have, and how we go about using them.