I love reflections like this. A mirror image of what is around the water appears to be the same, but is still quite different. The freshness is evident, but the image is blurred, because the surface of the water reflecting the sun makes it so.
It is nearly the same effect we get when we look in the mirror. We see a mirror image staring back at us through eyes that can only see the surface of our faces.
But when we look at ourselves in the Bible, we see ourselves how God sees us. When God sees a person who desperately needs His lovingkindness and grace, He sees someone who needs Him. When God sees a person saved by His grace, He sees a person/people who has chosen to call Him his God.
When God sees someone who doesn't see Him, He sends a messenger/preacher/sharer of the gospel to reveal Himself to anyone who is looking for Him.
When the eyes of our soul are open to the heavenly treasures which God extends to us through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, then we begin to see a blurred image of what God sees when He sees us. God sees someone who needs to be loved like He loves, someone who needs to know the Hope of the Resurrection, someone who needs Jesus. Someone like me. Someone like you.
But how do we see God? Paul wrote, "through a glass. darkly", acknowledging that we on this side of heaven could only see a dim reflection of Christ. He had come to realize that our knowledge and understanding were still growing, still gaining strength. That only after we crossed death's threshold would be able to see Christ in all His glory. And we would be fully revealed, too.
1 Corinthians 13:11, 12
"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. 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."
FACE TO FACE
Face to face in His glorious Light
We finally see Jesus after the fight
After the last breath is taken
In heaven's delight we awaken.
Face to face with Jesus
In eternity's wonderful day
Hearing the sweet sound of His voice
Our hearts are filled and we rejoice
In the city's golden streets
On the banks of the crystal sea
Face to face with Jesus our souls will ever be.
