For the time being, a Christian's spiritual eyesight is limited. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, … You have to spend time with God yourself. The blizzard veiled everything as a dark white scarf. In verse 18, the phrase "looking glass" is translated from the Hebrew In the New Testament, the word "glass" is translated from the Greek word It is interesting to realize that no person ever sees his own face. Christian or non-Christian, no mortal man fully comprehends the truth.

How is heaven multiplied to every soul in heaven, where infinite other happinesses are crowned with this, this sight, and this knowledge of God there? I was standing in a field of white. And therefore, though we ascribe willingly to faith, more than we can express, yet let no man think himself so infallibly safe, because he finds that he believes in God, as he shall be when he sees God; the faithfulest man in the church must say, Now, as for the sight of God here, our theatre was the world, our This is our sphere, and that which we are fain to call our place; and then our The light of glory is such a light, as that our schoolmen dare not say confidently, that every beam of it, is not all of it. This brings to mind the terror experienced by Isaiah after he saw a vision of the Lord.But in 1 Corinthians 13:12 the Bible does not say, "we see through a dark glass." The title to our sermon this morning is WHEN THE UNSEEN BECOMES SEEN 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. He sees only a two-dimensional reflected image of an isolated portion of what is actually there.Paul said "we see through a glass, darkly." But the day will come when man will no longer see Christ through a looking glass. What he sees in a mirror is a backward reflection. Mark 8 tells the story of the two-part restoration of sight to a blind man.

Furthermore, the glass Paul refers to is a looking glass or mirror. 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. For the unseen one will one day become the felt one and he will take us to the things promised and we will hold the things not seen. The more I walk with the Lord and study His Word the more examples I see where we see through a glass darkly. King James Version (KJV) Public Domain At best, he sees “through a glass darkly.”Sometimes a modern concept can interfere with the intended biblical message.

We see through a glass, darkly.� There seems to be a thick, impenetrable veil. I have never received any revelation from the Lord when I wasn’t seeking Him with all my heart. For now we see through a glass darkly. Their third way of knowing God is by apparition; as when God appeared to the patriarchs and others in fire, in angels, or otherwise; and their fourth way is Their first way, by assenting only, and their third way of apparition, are weak and uncertain ways.

This may well consist with both, that as that which we see in a glass, assures us, that such a thing there is, (for we cannot see a dream in a glass, nor a fancy, nor a chimera) so this sight of God, which our apostle says we have This glass is better than the water; the water gives a crookedness, and false dimensions to things that it shows; as we see by an oar when we row a boat, and as the poet describes a wry and distorted face, Aquinas calls this theatre, where we sit and see God, the whole world; and David compasses the world, and finds God everywhere, and says at last, much more strangely than in any other place, because he is there, without any emanation of any beam of comfort from him, who is the God of all consolation, or any beam of light from him, who is the Father of all lights.
He cannot see afar off. But it is And so it shall be a knowledge so like his knowledge, as it shall produce a love, like his love, and we shall love him, as he loves us. Young's Literal Translation says "we see through a mirror obscurely"? At best, he sees “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 … He cannot comprehend the deep things of God. 13:12) At few times in our Christian experience is this so evident as when we come to the Lord’s Table to remember Him in His death for us. but usefully; the ministry of the Gospel is but as God's vizor; for by such a liberty the apostle here calls it Since St. Augustine calls it a debt, a double debt, a debt because she asked it, a debt because he promised it, to give, even a woman, Paulina, satisfaction in that high point, and mystery, (for then we should see the thoughts of men) rest we in the testimony of a safer witness, a councilThis then we shall get, concerning ourselves, by seeing God It cannot be such a knowledge of God, as God hath of himself, nor as God hath of us; for God comprehends us, and all this world, and all the worlds that he could have made, and himself.
For, as St. Chrysostom, and the rest of the fathers, whom Oecumenius hath compacted, interpret it, How many heavens are there in heaven? If I should ask the basilisk, how eamest thou by those killing eyes, he would tell me, Thy God made me so; and if I should ask the slowworm, how eamest thou to be without eyes, he would tell me, Thy God made me so. Why haven’t I ever seen that before? A sculpture has three dimensions but it produces a likeness that has no counterpart in real life. WhenIn this consideration, God alone is all; in all the former there was a place, and a means, and a light; here, for this perfect knowledge of God, God is all those. You can’t live on someone else’s revelation. Our love for God, for others, even for ourselves is also limited by this darkness. Christians see, but their spiritual vision is far from complete.

On many occasions He had to explain even simple things to them. The more you develop that personal relationship with Him, the clearer you spiritual eyesight will become. Half the time they did not know exactly what Jesus was talking about.