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THE MIRROR – A REFLECTION OF HOW TO LOVE 1/05/08
Flat and unbending. Cold and unrelenting. When I reach
out to touch you, it doesnt feel like what I see. You
are mounted on my wall and I look at you every day. I
feel a smile, I see a smile. When I am provoked I see
that too. When I turn on my light, yours turns on as
well. So why is it that when I touch your face, it
feels so flat as though you are not real? I long to
touch you and feel warmth in return.
There came a day when I pointed at you, then dropped my
eyes upon my own hand. I saw one finger pointing away
but three pointing straight at me. And then I
understood. In the window of my heart I looked at you
and saw a reflection of myself. I can only see what I
am right now, or what I was before. So if I was
critical at what I saw it is because in my own
reflection, I had been guilty of the same.
One day I will put away sticks and stones and know you
as you really are. I will see the glory of what you
have become and I will see Jesus. And when I reach out
to touch you, you will no longer be flat and unbending,
cold and unrelenting. You will stand before me face to
face and I will see the deep pools of the reflection of
your love for me. And I will know my Jesus face to
face.
It is not until the perfect comes, that parts and pieces
will go away. The wholeness of intimacy is only
possible when I allow you to swallow up my parts. When
my corruptible parts are swallowed up I will see life on
the other side of death. I will see Jesus on the other
side and I will know Him as He knows me. Oh death where
is your sting? Faith, hope and love have triumphed and
we have victory through Jesus Christ.
1 Cor 13:10-12 AMP
But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the
incomplete and imperfect will vanish away (become
antiquated, void, and superseded). When I was a child,
I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I
reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I
am done with childish ways and have put them aside. For
now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim
(blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or
enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see
in reality and face to face! Now I know in part
(imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand
fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have
been fully and clearly known and understood [by God].
1 Cor 13:10-13 NKJV
But when that which is perfect has come, then that
which is in part will be done away. When I was a child,
I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought
as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish
things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face
to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just
as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest of these is love.
2 Cor 5:4-5 NKJV
For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened,
not because we want to be unclothed, but further
clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who
also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
1 Cor 15:53-57 NKJV
So when this corruptible has put on incorruption,
and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be
brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is
swallowed up in victory." "O Death, where is your
sting? O Hades, where is your victory?" The sting of
death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But
thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ. |
