Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror? How many of you have ever looked into the mirror and saw somebody else? How many of you ever looked into a mirror and saw your uncle, granny, or a monkey?
No!
The mirror always guarantees that when you look into it, you will always see yourself. It will always show the real you, not anything or anyone else. The mirror always reflects you for exactly who you are, including the tiny wrinkles (if you have any), or the tiny pimples (if you have any).
It is impossible to look into a mirror and see somebody else.
Now, the Word of God is a MIRROR also. The bible does show us that the Word of God is a mirror.
This means, when I look into the Word (when I study, when I read, when I listen to it) I see my reflection. I see exactly what God sees when He looks at me. The Word of God does tell us that we are more than conquerors. It shows us that we have overcome the world. It shows us that we are blessed beyond measure and that God blesses us abundantly above what we can ask or think.
I have never looked at the Word and saw it reflecting me as a ‘failure’, or as a ‘poor‘, ‘helpless’ man. It has always shown me that I am a new creation, that I have overcome the world, that I have eternal life, and I am a Son of God, that I am a joint-heir with Christ Jesus. The bible has always shown me that I can perform miracles, I can heal the sick, I can move mountains, and I can cast out devils. It has never told me that I can’t do anything. The MIRROR of God has always told me that ‘With God all things are possible’.
Maybe somebody is wondering, “Who are you to suddenly come up and compare the Word of God to a mirror?”
Well, the bible does describe itself as a mirror. It says
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” – 2 Corinthians 3:18. (King James Version)
Perhaps the King James does not describe the word ‘glass’ in the scripture above exactly as a ‘mirror’. But let us read the same verse in the Amplified bible version. It says
“And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His {very own} image in ever increasing splendor {and} from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit” - (Amplified bible version)
Did you see that? He tells us that maybe if we still are not a perfect mirror image of God’s Word, that as we continue to look into the mirror we are transfigured (changed, metamorphosed, and converted) into the exact reflection of God’s glory. He tells us that as we continue to look into the MIRROR we are constantly being changed from one degree of glory to another.
Brothers and sisters, I urge you to look into the mirror of God [study His Word], and you will see for yourself the real and true image of yourself.
But the apostle James warns us of not being forgetful hearers of the Word. He compares a Christian who hears the Word and doesn’t do what it says to a man who looks into a mirror and forgets what he looks like. The bible says
“For if any be a hearer of the word , and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.” – James 1:23,24
Some people are like that. They look at the mirror in the morning, but immediately as they leave the mirror they forget what they look like.
Some Christians are like that too. They study the Word of God, and it shows them of all the glorious things that it can produce for them. But then as soon as they close their bibles, they quickly forget what it told them. In other words they forget what the MIRROR told them about what they look like.
Brothers and sisters, let us continue looking into the MIRROR, let us continue to get the Word of God into our spirits.
God bless you.
No!
The mirror always guarantees that when you look into it, you will always see yourself. It will always show the real you, not anything or anyone else. The mirror always reflects you for exactly who you are, including the tiny wrinkles (if you have any), or the tiny pimples (if you have any).
It is impossible to look into a mirror and see somebody else.
Now, the Word of God is a MIRROR also. The bible does show us that the Word of God is a mirror.
This means, when I look into the Word (when I study, when I read, when I listen to it) I see my reflection. I see exactly what God sees when He looks at me. The Word of God does tell us that we are more than conquerors. It shows us that we have overcome the world. It shows us that we are blessed beyond measure and that God blesses us abundantly above what we can ask or think.
I have never looked at the Word and saw it reflecting me as a ‘failure’, or as a ‘poor‘, ‘helpless’ man. It has always shown me that I am a new creation, that I have overcome the world, that I have eternal life, and I am a Son of God, that I am a joint-heir with Christ Jesus. The bible has always shown me that I can perform miracles, I can heal the sick, I can move mountains, and I can cast out devils. It has never told me that I can’t do anything. The MIRROR of God has always told me that ‘With God all things are possible’.
Maybe somebody is wondering, “Who are you to suddenly come up and compare the Word of God to a mirror?”
Well, the bible does describe itself as a mirror. It says
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” – 2 Corinthians 3:18. (King James Version)
Perhaps the King James does not describe the word ‘glass’ in the scripture above exactly as a ‘mirror’. But let us read the same verse in the Amplified bible version. It says
“And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His {very own} image in ever increasing splendor {and} from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit” - (Amplified bible version)
Did you see that? He tells us that maybe if we still are not a perfect mirror image of God’s Word, that as we continue to look into the mirror we are transfigured (changed, metamorphosed, and converted) into the exact reflection of God’s glory. He tells us that as we continue to look into the MIRROR we are constantly being changed from one degree of glory to another.
Brothers and sisters, I urge you to look into the mirror of God [study His Word], and you will see for yourself the real and true image of yourself.
But the apostle James warns us of not being forgetful hearers of the Word. He compares a Christian who hears the Word and doesn’t do what it says to a man who looks into a mirror and forgets what he looks like. The bible says
“For if any be a hearer of the word , and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.” – James 1:23,24
Some people are like that. They look at the mirror in the morning, but immediately as they leave the mirror they forget what they look like.
Some Christians are like that too. They study the Word of God, and it shows them of all the glorious things that it can produce for them. But then as soon as they close their bibles, they quickly forget what it told them. In other words they forget what the MIRROR told them about what they look like.
Brothers and sisters, let us continue looking into the MIRROR, let us continue to get the Word of God into our spirits.
God bless you.
