As you walk toward your death and resurrection, do so like the Narnians did when Shasta looked on: “There were about half a dozen men, and Shasta had never seen anyone like them before . . . Their tunics were of fine, bright, hardy colours—woodland green, or gay yellow, or fresh blue. Instead of turbans, they wore steel or silver caps, some of them set with jewels, and one with little wings on each side of it . . . And instead of being grave and mysterious like most Calormenes, they walked with a swing and let their arms and shoulders go free, and chatted and laughed. One was whistling. You could see that they were ready to be friends with anyone who was friendly, and didn’t give a fig for anyone who wasn’t.”

There is a type of man who would object to this Cavalier walk (and he would no doubt call it Cavalierism). He would protest it on the grounds that it is too light. But, as Chesterton said, “the angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.” Some men assume they can go farther and faster with a heavy spirit. But the stony heart is what must be removed (Ezekiel 36:26). In its place, the sovereign God of earth and sky puts His own Spirit, and by His wind in your chest you walk in His statutes (Ezekiel 36:27).