The Mirror and the Reflection.

Have you ever gone out of your house in a rush and headed to school, college, work, or even for a casual outing without checking your appearance in front of a mirror? We don’t need to be someone who stands before the mirror applying makeup to be a person who is careful about their image. Just standing before the mirror will show us what needs to be corrected in our appearance. But the simplest and most magical thing about the mirror is that our reflection fades from our mind as quickly as we move away from it.

The Bible is like a mirror, but it helps us correct our flaws. It fixes us permanently when we seek its wisdom every day. The Bible teaches, corrects, leads, counsels, appreciates, and prophesies. But when we read and don’t follow, we are like the person described in the following verse: “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.” James1:23-27.

If we don’t use this godly mirror properly, we may even try to fix others without fixing ourselves. Matthew 7:3-5 "Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log..." "Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye' while the log is in your own eye?. It's ok to correct our brothers. But let us do it with Love. We call that as ministry said Joshua J. Yestov in His beautiful morning message.

May God help us and fill us with wisdom to be doers of the word. Someone said, “Be the change you want to see.” Instead of worrying, gossiping, watching critical videos about fellow brothers or sisters in Christ, or panicking about the future of the church, families, country, etc., may we look into the mirror and do what we can to correct ourselves.

Let’s be the change we want to see in this little life of ours. Take your mirror, the Bible in hand and note down what needs to be corrected to correct our selves.

Dear God,

Help us not to worry about anyone’s life but ourselves first. Help us to read the Bible and be doers of it every day. Open our eyes to recognize the log in our eyes. May it never blur our vision. Remove everything that stands against your word in our lives. May we obey the voice of the Holy Spirit and be your beloved children who glorify your name. Guide us, Lord.

In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.