A Temporary Perfection

Recently I spoke with someone regarding vision improvement from cataract surgery. They said, yes, that had been their experience until they developed glaucoma.

So cataract surgery can provide a temporary perfection.

Maybe it is similar to the process of sanctification. We grow in grace only to discover that we need to grow in more grace. We have overcome in one area only to discover to our dismay that there are many more areas of vulnerability or weakness.

We have to continue to call on the Lord to cleanse us and to strengthen us and to help us be all we need to be until that glorious day Paul writes about in 1 Corinthians 15, when the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal immortality.

We experience what we read in 2 Corinthians 3:18: "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit."

We anticipate what we read in 1 John 3:2: "Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is."