Like Him

     I mentioned some time ago that there are many things in this life that I don't know how they work among which was Television and computers.  One of the first computers we had at American Telephone and Telegraph Co. was located in Kansas City.  The size of the computer was actually almost a city block.  Instead of transistors or chips, it actually had physical relays which were either open or closed thus making the "1" or "0" needed for the computer.  It didn't do a lot for me except tell me what type of equalizer to put in a circuit depending on distance, and type of carrier.  I didn't even know how that computer worked, but I still used it.  We use a lot of things in the course of a day in our life in which we have no idea how they operate, but we still use them.  We know enough to have confidence that when we start the process, it will be completed.  When we pick up the phone and dial the number, it works and technically speaking, we don't have a clue about all of the details of the operation.   First John 3:2-3 says, " Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.  And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."  
      I am thrilled with the statement of John here where he says, "...doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that..."  We don't know how it is going to happen.  We don't know when it is going to happen.  John didn't know all of the details of this experience, but he went on to say, "but..."  His next statement was "we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him..."   You can reflect back to the appearances of the Lord Jesus Christ in the room that had been locked with the disciples inside and all of a sudden there was Jesus in the midst of them.  They could have touched Him and Jesus gave evidence that He was not a ghost but that He was real in every sense of the word.  So, the statement in First John reveals to us just a glimpse of what we shall have when we see Jesus face to face.  Here it is right in God's Word which explains that we don't know how it is going to be but that it shall be just as God said it shall be.  What is important is that God knows how it is going to work.  God knows when it is going to happen and God doesn't need my understanding in order to make it happen.  So Praise the Lord today that He knows when and how it is going to take place and that someday, we shall be like Him.