In the movie Prince Caspian, when Lucy sees Aslan for the first time, she is surprised that he is bigger. Aslan replies, "Every year you grow, so will I." This statement struck a chord deep within me, as I thought about how this applies to life.
As a child, the music I heard sounded nice; as an adult, I understand more of the form and structure that gives music its melody, harmony, and rhythm. As a child, I saw the relationship between a man and a woman as a simple arrangement that people do; as an adult, I now see it as a lifetime transformation into oneness and unity with another human being. Baby formula tasted good for me as a baby, but now a juicy steak is one that satisfies both the palette and appetite. As I grow older, the size of my world grows in height, depth, and width.
But the greatest joy of all is that Christ has grown throughout all of this. The Lord I know today is so much bigger than the one I knew several years ago. Each day He grows larger as I learn more about Him. Christ is not static and fixed, but alive and walking with me as I grow. Even better, much of what I was told about Him has been changed, modified, or eliminated as He has brought me into deeper relationship with Himself.
I think perhaps the truth is not that Christ grows as I grow, but that Christ has humbled Himself for me—so that I might come to know Him in my finite, limited form. It is not He that grows, but me, in that my eyes are continuously opened to a little more of what He has always been.
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