1 Corinthians 13:11 Commentary and Bible Study

He uses this is an illustration of going to heaven. ‘When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.’ Wasn’t there a time in your life – it is a slow process for some, a rapid process for others – when you put away childish things, childish assumptions and delights; and you became an adult? Paul means – this just as an illustration – when I enter into glory, it will be like putting away childish things. My understanding was limited, analogous to the limited understanding of a child, and when I enter into glory I shall have such power, such holiness, such perfection, such understanding. ‘God blessed me on earth’, we will say. ‘God gave me wonderful things on earth; but I gladly put them away, almost as though it was my spiritual childhood, when I enter into eternal life and glory, with so much understanding and knowledge and wonderful activities and blessings.’