The wonderful thing about children's books is that there are so many things that you don't understand and appreciate till you're older.
I love the characters and personalities that he built into each of the characters in the story. He did an amazing job by explaining the fallibility of all of God's creation.
Alongside that, he had a good understanding of the beauty of the Atonement, along with the consequences of disobeying god. Putting it in fiction, I feel, gives all a better understanding of the concept.
One passage reads:
You at least know the Magic which the Emperor put into Narnia at the very beginning. You know that every traitor belongs to me as my lawful prey and that for every treachery I have a right to kill.... And so that human creature is mine. His life is forfeit to me. His blood is my property... unless I have blood as the Law says all Narnia will be overturned and perish in fire and water."
We can subject ourselves to God or the Devil. It is our choice, but a choice that makes all the difference. At the end of the day though, there is one who is the Father and master of the other. As Aslan put it....
"It means," said Aslan, "that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward."
The beauty of the Atonement lies in the fact that it has the ability for us to overcome all. And, we can, if we so choose to.
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