Mirrors
Written by rob12870
Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 02:10 AM.
James 1:22-25 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it he will be blessed in what he does.
If your like me as you get older you tend to use mirrors less. I don't know maybe it's because I don't want to see my age creeping up on me in the form of another gray hair. As a teen I couldn't go anywhere without checking myself in the mirror. Maybe it was because I thought there was a world out there that I could impress. I can remember mirrors being in the locker areas at High School. You would always see a slew of kids lined up at them between periods. I guess they felt like they had someone to impress to. Some of those same people could be seen at those same mirrors between every class in fact sometimes I wondered if they just skipped class and stayed at the mirror. They were just so worried about protecting there image. I wonder who the guy was who invented the mirror? I mean was he looking to invent something that he or she could see them-self in or did it happen by chance? and were they happy with what they saw when they first looked into it? After all that is why we use mirrors isn't it? to see whats on the outside. To make sure everything is in place. That our hair is combed right, the clothes look good, the teeth don't have stuff in them, the make up is on right. Yeah mirrors really do the trick for what is on the outside and they sure don't lie. But what about what's on the inside? Well God has given us the perfect mirror to see whats on the inside. It's called the bible. The bible like a mirror shows us our flaws on the inside. It's up to us to make the changes necessary to reflect the likeness of God on the inside. You see when you look in a mirror for your outside person and you see something bad you don't just say oh well and walk away. No you almost always fix the problem and then go on your way unless your weird of course (just kidding). What God is saying in these verses is look when you take my word and you look into and I show you how you really are on the inside don't just go away and forget about what you read. Make the changes necessary. We worry so much about what's on the outside yet sometimes we act like we could care less about whats going on... on the inside. God uses His word to convict us of our sin and to show us whats wrong with the inside and He expects us to do what's necessary to keep the inside well groomed. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it he will be blessed in what he does. Have you checked your spiritual mirror lately?
Mirror, Mirror on the wall,
I believe God's word is the most honest mirror of all.
God Bless,
Rob
