Threads of Knowledge

I finished my 60th square today, which means I am officially one-third finished with my afghan. I try not to think about the 121 squares remaining, instead measuring my progress by what I've completed rather than what I haven't, lest the task seem overwhelming. Two a day here, three a day there seems much more attainable.

God, in His omniscience, reveals knowledge to us in pieces, just as a teacher breaks down a lesson into parts. If the teacher presented the whole concept at once, the student would be overwhelmed and confused because he wouldn't have sufficient knowledge to understand it. Piece by piece, God has been giving us the threads of knowledge about His plan and purpose, both for our own lives and for mankind. My pastor wove some of those threads together cleverly like this: Jesus is predicted in the Old Testament, revealed in the Gospels, proclaimed in Acts, explained in the Epistles, and expected in Revelation. Even still we don't have all the threads.

Job 42:3 "You [the Lord] asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I [Job] spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know."

There are unknowns in my life. Sure I've gathered a few threads in my short time on earth, and maybe if I wove them together I could make one granny square. But I wait for the day when I'll get to see the whole afghan.

1 Cor 13:12 "Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."