"Face to Face"

I Corinthians 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."

There are two kinds of mirrors, plate glass and window glass. One gives a clear reflection, the other not so much. Ancient mirrors were made out of highly polished metal, as opposed to glass. The metal mirrors were far from perfect. It doesn't matter what kind of mirror you are looking into it is always much different looking face to face.

Paul is saying that everything we see now is just a little blurry. We don't fully see everything. We only see part of it. There are so many mysterious things in this life that we don't have all the answers for. They are puzzling to us in the imperfect state in which we current live. But, praise be to God that one day we will have all things revealed to us, face to face, and then we will know even also as we are known.