Then I Will Know Fully, As I Am Fully Known

By Jeremy Myers

In my recent series on trying to understand the violent passages of Scripture in the Old Testament in light of the self-sacrificial love of Jesus Christ, I have the nagging sense in the back of my brain that all our theories and ideas on this subject (and in many other areas of theology as well) are about on par with a dog trying to figure out what humans are doing when they sit around talking, playing a card game, or just watching TV.
A dog can understand bits and pieces, I suppose, but they have very little idea about speech, electricity, rules of games, logical thought, or many of the other things that make us human.
I suppose that in some ways, all our speculative theology is little more than comic relief for God. You know… when we have a hard day, it is enjoyable to sit down a read a funny book or watch a humorous sitcom. I wonder if, when God has a hard century of running the universe, He gathers the angels together and says, “Let’s see what crazy idea Jeremy Myers wrote about on his blog today! Ha ha ha! That’s rich! Hilarous!  So funny!”
God is not mocking, of course. But I imagine He sometimes laughs at our feeble attempts to understand Him and His ways.
But I don’t think it was supposed to be this way. I think that as a result of the fall, we lost much of our ability to understand and interact with Him, this world, and one another. I think that as a result of the fall of Adam and Eve into sin, and as a natural consequences of living spiritually separated from God for so long, we have lost much of our capacity to know God.
But when Jesus Christ returns, Paul says that we will know Him, just as we are fully known (1 Cor 13:12). I wonder what that will be like? We will be given back some “senses” that we didn’t know even existed?
I think it will be a bit like the three year old boy in the following video who has never heard a sound, but who was given the ability to hear. But through the miracle of modern medicine, he was given the ability the hear.
As you watch the video, look at the wonder and shock on his face when he hears his first sounds, and especially his daddy’s voice.
http://youtu.be/GhC_By9GMv0 
Yeah, that’s going to be us when we finally see Jesus face to face, and we become fully human, the way He originally created us, the way He intended us to be.
When Jesus returns and we receive our new and perfect bodies, with new and perfect brains, unhindered by sin, whole new realms of possibility and knowing will open up before us, and just like the little boy in that video, our eyes will open wide with wonder and we will says, “Hey! What’s that? Wow! I never knew this was possible!”
Until then, we just muddle through as best we can, using sign-language and unvocalized grunts in attempts to explain the infinite mysteries and wisdom of God.
Of course, that is what Jesus is for…. God knew how difficult it was for us to understand Him and His ways, and so He sent Jesus, to show us what He is like. Although our feeble attempts at theology might be fairly amusing to God, the one sign we can all point to as we seek to know God is Jesus Christ.

Although our feeble attempts at theology might be fairly amusing to God, the one sign we can all point to as we seek to know God is Jesus Christ.

 (You can Tweet or Like this by using the little buttons to the right.) The more you get to know Jesus, the more you get to know the Father… So you want to understand God? Just look at Jesus.