“ 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.” 1 Corinthians 13:12 (ESV)
Do we really know ourselves? We may think we do but probably we don’t. If we are as most, we try to do the best we can with what we know. In the days that Apostle Paul visited Corinth, it was a city much caught up in its own image and the pleasures that made it up. Mirrors in that day of the 1st Century A.D. were polished brass and they reflected badly. Paul is teaching the believers that how we perceive ourselves today is nothing like how we will once we are in heaven. We will see ourselves clearly as if face to face. Today, this is not so unrealistic, our mirrors work well but in that time it was a good example. And, Paul says not only will we see ourselves for what we are in Jesus Christ, we will also know ourselves in a way that is complete. We will know just as we are known. We will see ourselves and know ourselves just as Christ has made us. No longer confused children, but mature (perfect) in Christ. We will lack nothing. We will have all we are and need.
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