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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Face to Face

When the scripture was read today verse 12 was the one that hit me. In the Amplified Bible version it reads: For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God].

This wasn't the focus of the sermon, but it's what I needed to hear this morning. Do you remember your best friend in elementary school? Mine was Shohrae. We grew up together climbing the willow tree in her front yard, playing at recess, & dressing her cats up in doll clothes (and we wondered why they always seemed to run away from us...) Shohrae has been fighting a type of sarcoma for a while now & last night she breathed her last breath here on earth. I am filled with grief, & saddened for her family and all of those who are close to her. Yet God sent me this reminder of His faithfulness. Verse 12. I can almost hear the whisper: Shohrae has made it!

She is with Our Heavenly Father - Face to Face.

She is whole again.

Healed.

Complete.

May God be glorified...through the tears, the mourning, & the remembrances of His precious child.

Verses from Philippians

1:21: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
2:1-11: If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:14-15: Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
3:7-8: But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
3:12-14:Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

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Face to Face