Glass reflections

"To desire something and not have it - is this not the source of nearly all our pain and sorrow?"

It's about time I write about why I named my blog glass reflections. I know right, I've had it how long? But I never felt like I could fully explain or communicate what the name means. It's a slight reference to 1 Cor. 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."
I believe this is talking about the completion of the word of God as Paul worked to finish writing the books in the Bible. But it holds a fascination for me. A word picture of looking into a dim glass and faintly making out your image. Maybe the glass is streched so you look skinny or fat and the imperfections of the glass marr your face with ugly marks.

I think we look at our lives through that glass. It's never good enough. It keeps us battered and defeated. Why try when the image never changes? The dark smokey glass has ruined our opinions of our self-worth. The desires we have for something more dies inside when we look through the glass. The reflection is detestable, who would want to love that?

I think there's more. I think we're just looking at things from the wrong perspective. We wake up every morning and head to that dark, dirty, dim glass and peer in, noting that nothing has changed. We pick at everything we dont like and then to feel better or hold a pity party, we compare it to someone elses glass! It makes even the good things of life dreaded. It kills desire. We don't like to desire for the fear of falling again.
"Hope rouses the desire from it's slumber and makes us even more vulnerable to disappointment."
"This is the point at which God most feels like our enemy. It seems at times that he will go to any length to thwart the very thing we most deeply want.
You see, the real dilemma of desire is that it humbles us. It takes us way beyond our own resources where we need to ask for help."

We're looking at this earthly life as the end all to our satisfaction and joy and happiness. Our search for the perfect life and the situation we've always imagined is not in vain. We just have the timing wrong. Take away that faded old glass. That's the worlds way of seeing you. There's a new glass waiting. Right now we know in part but then we shall know. Life will never be perfect here on this earth, but there's is a day that's coming... That's a hope that will never disappoint. How we handle the difficult situations now are just a test of our faithfulness to our God. He will not fail to reward the trials you endured.

Right now all we can see are the glass reflections... Mine isn't looking so bad after all... It's a matter of a heavenly perspective.