So many of
us are consumed with how we look; that would be men as well as women. We spend so much time in front of the mirror
trying to look good to and for others.
We use the mirror as a way to see our faults so that we can then cover
them up. When we walk away from the
mirror, our goal is to “look” better than when we first sat down or stood up in
front of it; however when we leave the mirror we are still the same flawed
person that stood before the mirror. We
walk away feeling like a different person when really are not.
The vanity
mirror for most people today, including Christians, is the world. We want to look like the world and sound like
the world. We want the world to think
that we look good and sound good. We
want the world to influence others in how they view us. We are constantly staring into the vanity
mirror hoping that the image reflected back to us is one that is acceptable to
the majority.
The problem with
using the world as our mirror is that we are not getting a true image of what
is wrong with us. This mirror says
something is good when God says it is bad.
This mirror says to just cover it up and everything will be OK. We walk away from this mirror with a
temporary sense of confidence that gradually fades throughout the day. We began to hope and pray that the flaws we
have covered up will remain under cover.
The true
mirror for Christians is the word of God.
It was not created so we could cover up our faults. It was created to expose our faults so that
we can appropriately deal with them.
When you think about the Ten Commandments, they were not simply meant to
be a set of rules to keep. They were
meant to be a body of work that God used to show us how we can’t keep them in
its entirety. God wants us to see how
much we need Him. He shows us daily that
if we look into His mirror in an earnest manner, we will walk away humbled and
submitted to His will because we will truly see that it is only His will that
means anything in this world.
God asks us
daily Mark 8:36 – What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and
forfeit his soul?
Let the Word
be your mirror and not the world.
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