Good morning…
I cannot tell you the number of times someone will say to me, “I loved your post this morning.” Way too often my honest response is this: “Really? Remind me. What did I write about today?”
In the early morning dawn, I spend hours and hours crafting daily messages, but after I press “send” to you, my friend, the fresh wisdom melts from my conscious mind into the way I live. May Exodus 16:21 be our shared experience: Each morning everyone gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
The New Testament mirrors this Old Testament experience. “But as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for the gift of special knowledge, it will pass away,” says I Corinthians 13:8b-9, 12-13 (AMP). “For we know in part, and we prophesy in part [for our knowledge is fragmentary and incomplete]…For now [in this time of imperfection] we see in a mirror dimly [a blurred reflection, a riddle, an enigma], but then [when the time of perfection comes we will see reality] face to face. Now I know in part [just in fragments], but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known [by God]. And now there remain: faith [abiding trust in God and His promises], hope [confident expectation of eternal salvation], love [unselfish love for others growing out of God’s love for me], these three [the choicest graces]; but the greatest of these is love.”
Today as the sun grows hot, may God melt away our incomplete wisdom, melting us into a puddle of unselfish love, mirroring in us God’s love for all.
…Sue…
