Knowing Partially Knowing Completely

1 Corinthians 13:12 “Now we see only a dim likeness of things. It is as if we were seeing them in a foggy mirror. But someday we will see clearly. We will see face to face. What I know now is not complete. But someday I will know completely, just as God knows me completely.” ~NIRV

When I was younger, my parents would tell me to do things. Often, I would get frustrated. I wouldn’t say anything out loud to them but, in my mind, I would have thoughts like, ‘I’m busy doing something! Why do I have to do it now?’ Or the times I had to do chores around the house like washing dishes, or yardwork, even being told by my father to change the car’s tires. Again, in my mind I would ask, ‘Why me?’

But when I got older, I became a man and set aside my childish ways, I can now look back and understand why things happened the way they did. I didn’t know it then, but my parents were preparing me. In other words, they were teaching me God’s timing. For example, when my parents called, I had to develop the will power to move when they called in spite of how I felt about moving. No matter what I was doing, I had to drop it and move at the sound of my parents’ voice. This taught me that God will call us at any time. As believers, to witness or even be apart of God’s miracle we have move on His time, not ours. Whatever we have going on when He calls, is not as important as what God has planned.

The chores I had to do taught me discipline. It taught me to be grateful. As children we live in a home that God has allowed our parents to provide for us. We had a responsibility to its upkeep as well because it is where the Lord placed us. As a child instead of complaining about yard work, I learned to be thankful that the Lord allowed me to live in a home with a yard. Instead of me being upset that I had to wash dishes, I became grateful that I had food to eat.

This is what the scripture above is speaking when it reads, “Now we see only a dim likeness of things.” Just as I was when I was little, we as believers may only see the struggle and pain we go through on some days. We may even be upset and ready to move from some of the places we are in. But we do not see or know that God has us where we are for a reason. There is a miracle in the making for that location.

The text continues, “What I know now is not complete.” As believers we cannot trust in what we see, but in what we do not see. We must trust in God’s plan for our lives. By praying in thanksgiving for Him to give us the strength, courage and wisdom to see our trials through. When we trust the Lord in His plan for our lives, then we can speak the Word of God when it says, “But someday I will know completely, just as God knows me completely.” It is because God knows us completely that we trust that His plan for us will eventually show us the victory in our journey.
 
May God bless and keep you in His will and protection in Jesus’ name.

Amen

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