1.6-I know my redeemer lives.

1.6-I know my redeemer lives.

I see the movement of the trees in my back yard. I see a shadow of a squirrel jumping from a tree to my roof. I hear the sound of something on my roof. I have not seen a squirrel yet I “know” there is a squirrel there.

I have seen God’s spirit move some things. I have seen a shadow of Jesus’ doing all kinds of great work through the church. I know there is a God and I know my redeemer lives.
Someday I will finish my work as my cousin, Jerry*, has done and move to see Jesus face to face.

Till then I will notice the movement of tree limbs. I will see shadows of Jesus in the body, the church.
We do not know when our work will end, but we do know that if we keep our faith in Him we will see Him face to face.

(*Jerry Jones my cousin finished his work and moved to be with the Lord yesterday evening after a long time of health challenges. He was a strong Christian man. He was the husband of my dearly beloved cousin, Ruth Ann Milton Jones.)

John 3.
⁸ The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Ephesians 5.
²² Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, ²⁶ so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ²⁷ that He might present to Himself the church ^[q]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. ²⁸ So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, ³⁰ because we are members of His body. ³¹ For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. ³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. ³³ Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she ^[r]respects her husband.

Philippians 3.
²⁰ For our ^[m]citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; ²¹ who will transform ^[n]the body of our humble state into conformity with ^[o]the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

1 Corinthians 13.
⁸ Love never fails; but if there are gifts of ^[c]prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part; ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I ^[d]became a man, I did away with childish things. ¹² For now we see in a mirror ^[e]dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. ¹³ But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the ^[f]greatest of these is love.