Golden, Colorado
Most of us know what this machines is that hides behind the window, though perchance there is someone who doesn't. I immediately knew that it was a sewing machine as it looked just like my grandmother's that was for some reason in my grandparents garage.
Though we might recognize that the machine behind the window is a sewing machine, there is a great deal we don't know about it.
We don't know if it works.
We don't know the exact model number.
We don't know if all the parts are original.
The only way to know this sewing machine is if we position ourselves on the other side of the glass.
As we stand on this side of eternity we're given a glimpse of who God is and what waits for us after this life, but we really don't know what that life will be like. Paul uses the image of a mirror to express this thought.
"Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely." 1 Corinthians 13:12 New Living Translation
As we stand on this side of eternity God gives us a glimpse of who he is, but the day is coming when we will see the fullness of who he is. For now, God has left us with a view of what that life will be like. May this view cause a desire to rise up in us to be with him and experience the fullness of his glory.
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