The God That Grows Bigger

If you’ve ever read the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, you’d know that the allegories to faith are rather obvious. But the beauty of this is that we receive child-like pictures of our relationship with God and how he acts toward us. In one story from the series, there is an encounter Lucy has with Aslan, the great Lion whose character resembles God:

“Aslan, Aslan. Dear Aslan,” sobbed Lucy. “At last.” “Welcome, child,” he said. “Aslan, you’re bigger.” “That is because you are older, little one,” answered he. “Not because you are?” “I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”

Every year that we grow, we see God as a little bit bigger than he was the year before. The more we learn, the more we realize we don’t understand, and how powerful a God must be to have created and continue to sustain a world as vast as ours. It’s a profound picture.

It also points to ourselves as we grow to understand our own brokenness and God’s great grace. I once heard that the Christian faith looks like a graph that splits two lines, one going gradually up and the other going gradually down. As we grow older, we find that we are more sinful than we thought while simultaneously realizing that God’s grace, love and forgiveness are greater than we thought. For every year we grow, we will be like Lucy, looking up and finding God to be a little bit bigger than how we saw him before.

*Quote from The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian