The Good Master
Why should we worship God and obey his laws? Because he is sovereign and because he is good. Because the ultimate expression of God’s sovereignty is the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Because the ultimate expression of his goodness is the Love of Jesus Christ. That is why we say of Christ, who deserves it, what Kent said of Lear, who did not: There is that in his countenance that we would fain call Master.
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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