"Aslan," said Lucy, "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."
Looking back to my childhood, I remember counter tops in my home being quite tall. I was small back then. Now I am approx. 5'10." Those same counter tops, I look down on. It is how life is, when you grow up, you grow bigger, and usually smarter if you aren't lazy and circumstances are right. Sure, when I was taking classes such as biochemistry I thought I would never figure out the material. But if you put enough time into, whether it be 1 hour or a lifetime's work, you can eventually figure things out. Sure, new discoveries are made every now and then that lay waste to previous facts. But generally, as time marches on in life, the complex becomes more simple, the big becomes smaller.
Here we have Lucy, who was once a little girl in "The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe." She is a few years older. Yet when she sees Aslan once again, Aslan is bigger. She first believes that it is because Aslan may have also aged, just as she has aged. Aslan states otherwise. He is only bigger because she is bigger. He is still the same.
This same idea applies to God. As a Christian becomes more mature in Christ over time, the Christian will find that they do know God more, yet they discover that there is still so much more to learn about God. Imagine that I am still that same kid who would have to look up to the counter top, only to grow up and the counter top appears be as tall as a skyscraper! But alas, perhaps it was never a counter top to begin with. Reading that excerpt from "Prince Caspian" made me think of the end of the book of Job. If you haven't read it, you should. Job, an upstanding man, has nearly everything stripped away from him. He wonders why God has allowed these things to happen to him. BOOM! God encounter, Job is speechless. Check it out. I think I will again, after all, I still have much to learn.
