Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...

There’s a magical mirror mentioned in the scriptures. It’s a mirror that doesn’t reflect physical features but reflects our spiritual condition.

“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)

“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing” (James 1:23-25)

James describes a man who looks in the mirror and walks away unchanged. Paul describes a Christian who beholds the Lord's glory and is transformed.

As we turn our lives over to Christ, something wonderful happens.

Gradually, we eliminate sin and replace selfishness with service, hatred with love and pride with humility.

Until when we look in the mirror we see Jesus Christ looking back at us and the transformation is complete.

Here's a question worth the asking…

Do you want to just get older and uglier or do you want to look like Jesus?

Make-up can’t make you look any better, only looking at Jesus can give you true beauty.