Here We Know but in Part: “But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away” I Corinthians 13: 10. That is What I Long to See and To Have in Reality! The Beulah Land of Our Lord's!

An artist rendition of the Land of Beulah! It means "married" in the Holy Scripture, and is a metaphor for Heaven.

A Devotional for the Day of My Birth, April 14, 2025

Here We Know but in Part

“But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away”

I Corinthians 13: 10.

Of the soul [in Heaven]; it will then be filled in all the faculties of it with as much bliss and glory as ever it can hold.

1. The understanding shall then be perfect in knowledge— “Now we know but in part.” We know God, Christ, heaven, and glory, but in part; “but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away” (1 Corinthians 13: 10). Then shall we have perfect and everlasting visions of God, and that blessed one his Son Jesus Christ, a good thought of whom doth sometimes so fill us while in this world, that it causes “joy unspeakable and full of glory.”

2. Then shall our will and affections be ever in a burning flame of love to God and his Son Jesus Christ. Our love here hath ups and downs, but there it shall be always perfect with that perfection which is not possible in this world to be enjoyed.

3. Then will our conscience have that peace and joy that neither tongue nor pen of men or angels can express.

4. Then will our memory be so enlarged to retain all things that happened to us in this world. So that with unspeakable aptness we shall call to mind all God’s providences, all Satan’s malice, all our own weaknesses, all the rage of men, and how God made all work together for his glory and our good to the everlasting ravishing of our hearts.

Editorial Note: Now on the date of my birth, I long to know even as also I am known of Him, Christ Jesus Our LORD!