Thursday, May 15, 2025
WE SHALL SEE HIM!
1 Cor 13:12
12 For
now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1 John 3:2
2 Beloved,
now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we
know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as
he is.
The
word “glass” is actually the word for “mirror”, but
it seems clear to me that the writer indicated something that we look through
instead of something we look upon. If it is a glass we look through, it is
certainly not our very own optical prescription. It is blurred and distorted.
If it is a mirror, it is old and discolored and twisted. The word “darkly” is
the Greek word ainigma which literally means “obscure.” We don’t see things
clearly here, but we will one day.
Old
photographs capture our mothers and fathers in their youth. We see
Dad as quite handsome and not the old man we last remembered him to be. We see
Mom as pretty and maybe even beautiful and not the bent old woman we last
remembered her to be. It can be at once both discouraging and encouraging.
John
says that we can’t imagine “what we shall be” but we know that
when we shall see Him, we shall be like Him. Health which life and age has
diminished will be renewed. We shall run and bounce like children. We will see
the loveliness of the soul.
We see
people, both friends and enemies, in snapshots. Some event may
reverse the order and friends become enemies and enemies become friends. Only
love and forgiveness keeps them in their proper places!
Knowing that
we shall see Him motivates us to purity.
1 John 3:3
3 And
every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Dear Father,
why does the smudged glass through which I look seem so normal day-by-day? Why
does the clear view of Heaven seem so cloudy? I trust your Word. Like Job said,
“I shall see God” (Job 19:26). AMEN
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