Revelation is a glorious thing.
The phrase “through a glass darkly” is
often used to describe our current condition: we do not know everything we wish
we knew about God’s purposes for us. We would like to know more; of course we
would.
But when we apply that biblical phrase to ourselves, I believe we are erroneously putting
ourselves back twenty centuries in time and assuming ourselves to be in the same
condition as the Christians to whom Paul wrote in the mid-first century AD with
respect to the knowledge of God and his purposes.
And yet we are not in their situation. Not at all. We are much, much better off than they were.