Through The Keyhole
There is an unremarkable green door in Rome that attracts thousands of visitors every year.
Not because of the door itself.
Because of the keyhole.
Through that tiny opening, visitors can see the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica perfectly framed in the distance. The view is stunning. It has become one of the most photographed sights in the city.
What fascinates me is that the view is completely real.
It is also completely incomplete.
The keyhole reveals something true, but not everything true.
I’ve thought about that often while reading Scripture.
The longer I walk with God, the less faith feels like mastering a subject and the more it feels like standing before something immeasurably vast. Every passage opens into another passage. Every answer seems connected to a hundred others. What once looked like a pond begins to feel more like an ocean.
A few days ago, I was standing in the Alps. The mountains stretched beyond what my eyes could take in. Before that, I stood beside the sea and watched the horizon disappear into the distance. The view was real, but my perspective was small.
Perhaps that is what Paul meant when he wrote, “For now we see through a glass, darkly.”
Not that truth is hidden.
But that it is bigger than we are.
I have watched sincere believers, equally devoted to God and His Word, arrive at different conclusions. That used to trouble me. Now it mostly reminds me that we are all peering through the same keyhole.
The glimpse matters.
Humility matters too.
One day, the door will open wide. Faith will become sight, and the questions we carried for years will finally rest.
Until then, I am content to trust the One who sees the whole city.
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5
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