Eternal Learning
by Donald T. Williams
God's person—his holiness, his righteousness, his majesty, his love, his grace, his glory, seen in all their fullness in the face of his Son—will take us all of eternity to absorb. It is so wonderful that we will never get tired of seeing more of it, and so infinite that there will never come a day when there is nothing new left of it to see. Seeing more of it is what makes life worth living, and worth living for eternity. So we are hardly going to begin exhausting it in this life—but we do get to start bathing in it and drinking it in. That is why every Christian is called to be a lifelong learner, and why this calling is a blessing and a gift rather than a burden. Why should Christians be lifelong learners? Because God is so infinitely wonderful that they will be eternity-long learners, and the rest of this life is simply the first stage of that.
Donald T. Williams is Professor Emeritus of Toccoa Falls College. He stays permanently camped out on the borders between serious scholarship and pastoral ministry, between theology and literature, and between Narnia and Middle-Earth. He is the author of fourteen books, including Answers from Aslan: The Enduring Apologetics of C. S. Lewis (DeWard, 2023). He is a contributing editor of Touchstone.
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