When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. 

But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.

1 Corinthians 13:11-12 NLT

What interesting pictures!

How differently we see the world as children, how as we grow and change, everything changes. 

And the idea of a puzzle mirror, a warped mirror, a mirror that doesn't reflect accurately. 

What do we see when we look in a mirror?

Usually just ourselves right? 

Paul is saying that not only does our view of the world change when we love like this, but so does our view of ourselves. 

When we love and are loved with patience, kindness, with never-giving-up love, we see everything differently, even ourselves. 

"But then". But when?

Yes there will be face-to-face, kanohi ki te kanohi, with Love, with our God one day, and this will all be clear. 

However Paul talks of this love being the most excellent way, that Love Is, not some future promise, but a now reality that we can give and receive, and as we do, the world changes, what we do in the world changes, and how we see ourselves gets clearer.

That's what Love does.

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