Gentle cat and fierce lion

I'm presently reading the Chronicles of Narnia, prompted by all the talk about the movie that has come out recently. I read the books as a child and thoroughly enjoyed them, now I am reading them in an attempt to decipher what C.S. Lewis intended the stories to represent.

I'm up to 'The Horse and His Boy' (these days the books take much less time to get through), a story of a boy called Shasta who escapes from his father's house (who is not really his father at all) on a talking horse called Bree. It tells of their journey to the land Narnia and how Shasta comes to know the truth of his past; that is, that he is really the son of a king and heir to the throne. One bit stood out to me which kind of helped me through some stuff that's been happening in my life at the moment. One night, Shasta is all alone on the edge of a desert, preparing to sleep among some tombs. A cat comes up to him (and nearly scares the life out of him at first - he'd heard stories about ghouls that haunted the tombs), and sleeps at his back for the night. However, Shasta wakes during the night to the sound of jackals in the distance, and realises that the cat is gone. He becomes afraid and wishes he wasn't so alone. If only he knew that a jackal would tear him apart had it had the chance to get near him. Suddenly Shasta hears a deafening roar, followed by the sound of jackals retreating into the night. Later, Shasta wakes again to see the cat once more at his feet.

It is not until later in the story that Shasta meets Aslan, the great lion who represents Jesus in the story. Aslan tells Shasta that the cat back at the tomb was in fact Himself. He was also the lion who scared off the jackals, and the same lion who chased Shasta and his friend Aravis to make them travel faster in order to make it to Archenland more quickly to warn the king of a coming attack.

I was comforted by this picture of God. Sometimes God is like the quiet cat lying at our back, quietly present to give us comfort in fearful times. Sometimes, however, it feels like (and I've felt this way), that He is not even with us at all; that everything that is happening to us is completely forgotten by him. But just when we think he has left us, he is like the lion, defending us from our enemies without us even knowing it. What an awesome God.