"I SHALL KNOW FULLY!"

1 Corinthians 13:11-12               (ESV)
"11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then "I SHALL KNOW FULLY", even as I have been fully known."



Recently I saw a comment from a friend saying "the kids are growing up so fast"!  Remembering when my children were born, and now seeing them with children of their own, it seems to be eerily true that everything is moving faster and faster as I age.  It SEEMS as though the older I get, the more rapidly things happen.  The years between when I was four and fourteen seemed to take twenty years to pass, but the past 10 years SEEMS like have flown by!

But wait, ten years is ten years, and everyday is 24 hours!  We don't get to hurry through the rough times, and REALLY slow down and enjoy the good times.  Maybe as we age, our perspective changes as we are better able to comprehend life and the happenings around us?  Maybe I am more able to understanding that I am a sojourner passing through this world on a journey to another place where "I SHALL KNOW FULLY"?

The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:12 "For now we see in a mirror dimly".  We tend to act (and react) as though the place we currently are in life is where we are going to always be.  But the latter portion of that verse plainly states "I SHALL KNOW FULLY", a reminder that we are on a journey, not in a destination!  Our witness is determined by how we act/react to the place we are in that journey!

While recovering from the brain hemorrhage I experienced in 2007, I seemed to be of the mindset that every day was a new day all I needed to be concerned about was what was happening THAT day.  Isn't that walking by faith?  Why then do I attempt to plan my future out based off of what "I see"?  Walking by faith got me through the darkest times of my life, why would I try to do anything more today???

"I SHALL KNOW FULLY" is like a Promissory Note from Someone WHO is able to deliver "far more abundantly" (Ephesians 3:20) for us!  For now, we only operate as "seeing in a mirror dimly", but one day soon I will see face to face the ONE WHO "I SHALL KNOW FULLY"!!!