There is a very interesting conversation between Lucy and Aslan and CS Lewis’s Prince Caspian.
“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.”
In the natural world, the things that seem so big when you were small seem smaller once you grow big, but in Christ, the more you grow, the more we find Jesus bigger. It is not that he is bigger than he used to be; it’s that we see Him bigger than we used to see. The new creation was created in Christ and is lived out, participating in His life and existence. As time goes by, the more I contemplate that the Christian life is our participation in – are very inclusion in – the life that Jesus lives, the bigger the whole thing gets to me. John the baptizer said, “He must increase, and I decrease.” – John 3:30. One of the consequences of seeing your union with Christ bigger is that a vision of “independent fallen false self” decreases. We don’t surrender more so that we can see Him bigger. It is because we see Him bigger that we surrender more.
“In My Father’s house are many abiding places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go (to the cross) to prepare an abiding place for you. And if I go and prepare an abiding place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself, that where I am there, you may be also.” – John 14:2 – 3.
That abiding place that Jesus prepared for us by going to the cross is of course that spiritual place of being “in Christ,” and what a large place it is. Just as John 14:3 says, In Christ, where he is, we always are because, in Christ, we’ve been immersed into the life and existence He lives.
There are a couple of prophetic Psalms about God saving us by placing us into the life of Christ; “And You have not given me over to the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet and a large (roomy – spacious) “Psalm 31:8 and, “From my distress, I called upon the Lord; Yahweh answered me and set me in a large (roomy – spacious) place.” – Psalm 118:5.
This large place, or large room called “in Christ,” is as spacious and roomy as Jesus is. Every breakthrough in the Christian life is a fresh seeing Christ and seeing life “in Christ” bigger than before, and every fresh seeing is a sovereign work of the Holy Spirit inviting you and me into a larger experience of this large room called “in Christ.” Take note, though, every time He invites you into a larger experience of that large room, he’ll ask you to lay something down that you can’t take with you. It might be anything, even just a simple attitude that you have kept as a pet for too long. It might be something difficult to release, but remember, any time God asks us to let go of something, it is because there’s something much bigger and much better he wants us to participate in.