1 Cor 13:12a Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.
I first learned I needed glasses when I was in 10th grade. There was a vision screening during PE class, and the lady asked me if I had left my glasses at home. Only I didn’t wear glasses. She was shocked, but I didn’t know any difference. I saw the way I’d always seen. While I don’t remember a vivid difference in vision back then, now is a different story. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that without my glasses, there’s much that I miss.
1 Cor 13:12b All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
I think life, death, heaven, God and Jesus, faith—all of them must work similarly. We think we know. We think we see. We think we understand. We don’t realize how blind we really are, how poor our eyesight. We don’t realize the pieces we are missing. We will one day, but right now, we are just incapable of seeing the total picture, so we have to trust the One who does.
Isaiah 55:8 “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
Lord, Thank You for this day and for this knowledge that now we understand partially—there are things that we can’t yet know—but one day we will understand fully. Thank You that we know and can trust the One who does understand all. Help us to cling to You and trust You always. Draw us closer. Amen.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding….
Have a blessed day.
My faith, my life, my teaching–it's all a work in progress.