Following the One No One Else Can See

In C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian, there is a moment that quietly breaks your heart. The children are lost in the gorge, exhausted, arguing over which path to take. Then Lucy sees Aslan. He is standing right there, luminous and unmistakable, beckoning them to follow. But when she turns to tell the others, not one of them can see Him. They dismiss her. They vote to go the other way.

Lucy faces the loneliest kind of trust — believing what she has seen with her own eyes when everyone around her says it is not there. She could surrender to the majority. She nearly does. But Aslan later asks her a devastating question: "Why did you not follow me alone?"

Every person of faith knows that gorge. You have sensed the leading of the Almighty — a quiet conviction, a still small voice, a certainty lodged deep in your chest — and the people you love and respect see nothing. They think you are imagining things. The reasonable path leads the other direction.

What Lewis understood is that trust is not a group decision. It is a solitary act of obedience that sometimes looks like foolishness to everyone watching. Lucy had to follow Aslan before the others could see Him. Her willingness to walk alone was the very thing that opened their eyes.

The Lord does not always show the whole company what He has shown you. Sometimes He asks you to go first.