Seeing through the Glass Darkly
by the Watchman
Dana G Smith
keywords: glass, darkly, eternity, Jesus, Christ,
words: 2048
It was about six thirty in the morning, the snow had been coming down all night. Everything was wet with branches, tree’s, leaves, fences, houses covered in a thick 3 inch coating of the white stuff. My wife and I had again ventured out early this am and went to workout as we do on a regular basis. I was done, in the car, and was looking out as the gray haze of the morning revealed the sky and heavy white snow coming down gently. Because it had so much moisture, the water content was very high as it is this time of the year. Spring storms in our neck of the woods can be devastating and dangerous. But this one brought moisture with a rather warm day to it. The temp’s hovered just below freezing. Just enough to create snow and not enough to freeze the roadways to solid ice.
The car was warming up as I waited for my wife to join me. The windshield was melting snow as it fell while the car roof poured snow and liquid onto the surface before me. As I peered through the window I could see the club as we called it. I could not see very good as the images were blurred by the melting snow turning to liquid on the windshield. I could normally see into the club very well through the windows, but on this day, the weather created images that prevented me from identifying what was before me. As I looked a shape formed and after a few moments of looking I could tell the shape of my wife and then clearly identify her face.
As I went through these moments in silence, I thought of this nation and the churches. How many do not believe what we tell them is coming. I thought about the clearly partisan congress, government, and many people who back our current President. I then remember the Apostle Paul’s words to the Corinthians saying “now we see through a glass darkly.”
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: