Face In The Mirror

Face In The Mirror

“Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.”
James 1:23-24

Each morning most of us have a ritual of checking our appearance in the mirror before we venture out into the big world. Throughout our day we are continually looking in every mirror we find to make sure our hair is in place, or there is nothing on our face, and to make sure we look presentable. If we see something that we are not pleased with we make any change necessary to correct it. If we find our hair is in disarray, or we have mustard on our face we make the change necessary to make things right. We are concerned about our outward appearance, but God is not concerned about how we look on the outside, but is concerned about how we look on the inside. What if we began a ritual of looking in the mirror each morning and seeing our inward flaws, such as lying, selfishness, pride, unforgiveness and the other flaws that God is not pleased with in our lives, and begin to make the changes needed to correct these flaws. These would be the kind of changes that God would be pleased with us making in our lives. Making changes in our outward appearance only pleases ourselves, but making the changes in our hearts, and in our attitudes and behaviors toward others would be the changes that would please God. So with this in mind, the next time you look in the mirror to correct your outward appearance, think about an inward flaw that you have inside you, and make the change to correct it and get your mind off yourself.