THEN WE SHALL SEE FACE TO FACE”
“What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror;
then we shall see face-to-face»
(1 Corinthians 13:12, GNT).
FEW THINGS leave such a deep imprint in a child’s life as much as getting into mischief. At least that was my personal experience. I will never forget the day I pretended my mom’s high heels were a microphone. My creative child’s mind was convinced it would be the ideal instrument to amplify my voice.
I decided to grab «my microphone” and put it to good use. When I stretched out my hand to grab the «device,» I touched an electric cable and immediately a huge force began to shake my five-year-old little body. Thank God, my mom was very close by, saw what was happening, and unplugged the menacing cable.
My mischief forged a groove in my mind and allowed me to learn two important lessons. Today, I will share the first one: what we see in our minds (our interpretation of things) is not always real. For example, in my case, I saw a microphone, but in reality, it was nothing more than my mom’s high-heeled shoe.
In our daily lives, we tend to see things that are not really the way we perceive them. Why is that? It’s because we have deeply rooted assumptions that mold us and condition the way we view our reality.
The truth is that quite often, driven by our sense of sight or touch, we fall into the naive assumption that we own reality. In fact, our world’s misfortune began when «the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate» (Genesis 3:6). Eve saw and believed there was wisdom in that tree; however, the reality was that eating of that fruit would only produce death (see Genesis 2:17). In fact, «the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” do not come from God (see 1 John 2:16). Satan manages to make our “minds be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:3).
God’s Word actually says that “what we see now is like a dim image in a mirror,” that what we know now «is only partial.” But this promise is for us: “Then we shall see face-to-face” (1 Corinthians 13:12, GNT). On that day we will not allow ourselves to be confused by the lust of our eyes.
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Taken from: Devotional Readings for Adults 2023
“I AM WITH YOU”
From: J. VLADIMIR POLANCO
Collaborators: Lorina Maya & Avineyda Hernandez