The mirrors in your life.
2 Corintians 2:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass(mirror) the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
This past week I was sharing at Project Searchlight about identity. I have talked about this topic so many times in the past. As I was meditating about what to share, I saw something I have not seen before. We all form our identity by what we look at. We have make belief mirrors that we trust with our whole heart.
We all have mirrors in our life. In every bathroom and even in bedrooms we have mirrors. We look into those mirrors everyday. Before we leave the house we want to see if we are representable. Mirrors have the ability to reflect what is in front of it. Some people spend hours trying to make themselves acceptable by looking at that mirror. So here are a few things about mirrors.
Mirrors don’t lie. What you see in that mirror is a perfect representation of what is in front of that mirror.
Mirrors help us to beautify ourselves. Mirrors have the cunning ability to chance people.
Mirrors only reflect, they don’t produce an image by themselves.
- And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
In the Bible we read about mirrors. In the book of Exodus when Moses was commanded to build the Tabernacle, one of he things he had to make was a laver for the Tabernacle he build. The laver was constructed from the mirrors of the woman in the camp. At that time they didn’t have mirrors, as we know them today. Their mirrors were polished brass. It still reflected what was in front of that mirror. So Moses took the mirrors to build the laver. The laver was a rounded tub that could hold water so that the priest could wash their hands in it after they killed the sacrifice. I want you to see the picture. As the priest would bend over that laver filled with clean water, they would see their reflection in the water. It was a mirror for the priests. As they continued washing the blood off of their hands, the blood would color the water and the priest would no longer see his image but would see the bloody water. The blood changed what they were seeing. What a great picture of how the blood of Jesus takes away the reflection and only his blood is visible. The laver lost its ability to reflect the priest image and only showed proof of the sacrifice that just took place.
We have all allowed the opinion of men to be a mirror in our life. We have allowed all kinds of things and expectations to be a mirror in our life. Can you think of anything that does not reflect Christ? That is a false mirror. You believe what you see in the mirror. Can you understand the power a false mirror will have in your life? When something is a lie it will influence you as long as you look into it. Why have you struggled with overcoming some issues in your life? What are you looking at? Men struggle to get deliverance from pornography but won’t stop looking at it. It is a mirror in your life. Woman struggle with their bodies but won’t stop looking at skinny models in magazines. It is a false mirror in your life.
We all have to give up the mirrors in our life so that God can do something with it. We have all looked at ourselves and have seen the wrong thing. We can never improve ourselves unless we come to the blood of Jesus. We have made the opinions of men our mirror. We have made the world our mirror. We have all set up mirrors in our life that does not represent what God has in mind for us. The scripture says that as we behold Jesus, the only mirror God ever wanted us to have, we are changed. Jesus is the perfect reflection or mirror image of God.
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Mirrors don’t reproduce their own image. When we look into the mirror of God, he reflects the Christ that he sees in us. That represents the change that we are to make to fully reflect Christ. Christ in us is the hope of glory. Jesus is the only one that can accurately reflect you. He became sin for us, reflecting our old nature. Now he is interceding for us, reflecting our new man before the Father. You are a new creation. Allow Him to be the mirror you look into. As you do change happens. Don’t see sin. See his righteousness. What you behold is what you become.
