A Reflection As In A Mirror
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will
cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge,
it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when
completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When
I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a
reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
1 Corinthians 13:8-12
We do not really know what heaven will be like. The inspired
picture the Bible gives us of heaven will someday be replaced by joyful, direct
experience. Paul understood that our perception of heaven is limited until one
day in the future when we will be in Christ’s presence.
Paul’s confidence in future glory gave him strength in the midst
of trial.
Our current idea of the glories of heaven is only a simple
sketch. But we can be completely confident in Jesus’ claim that He has gone to
prepare a place for us. The best is yet to come.
Now we see Jesus in the Bible,
but one day we’ll see Him face to face.
Our Daily Bread –