I’m writing this two days after having surgery on my right eye, and it’s given me a new appreciation for how much we rely on vision. An air bubble from the surgery is hanging around the bottom half of the eye, providing a weird darkish circle that affects everything I look at. (No worries; they tell me it will dissolve in a few days)
But this dark circle brings to mind the Apostle Paul’s comment:
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 (1 Corinthians 13:12).
Other versions translate the first part as seeing “through a dim window obscurely” or “a blurred image in a mirror.” We view our circumstances with human, flawed eyesight. We look at the trials and tribulations that have come our way this year, and we wonder at the irony: 2020 has given us anything but “2020” perfection.
And yet, God reminds us that He is in control.
