For Now We See Through A Glass Darkly





For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known.  I Corinthians 13:12

Jesus words and the Christian life is paradoxical...

~ Give and you will have running over.
~ If someone wants you to go one mile, go two.  Go beyond for the sake of Jesus.
~ Share your own burdens and yet we're told to bear our own burdens.
~ The darkness has treasures all of its own and it's in the dark that real growth happens.
~ We are told to believe on Jesus by faith and yet we are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
... and more.

These paradoxes are hard to understand fully and sometimes I find very hard to know how to live out. Some day we shall see clearly and I look forward to that day.  Some day we will see and know in the way that Jesus sees and knows now.

Until then, I have learned His goodness is who He is and I trust Him.  The one thing we can do is to stay.  Stay with Him and find refuge in Him.

The way of Jesus is upside down in so many ways and what doesn't make sense to our human minds, works in the way of Jesus.






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