What's Your Reflection

How much time do you spend in front of a mirror?  How many times a day do you do a “mirror check“?  As a young lady, I know, for me at least, it’s a lot, although maybe not as much as other girls, but more than enough.  The amount of time in front of a mirror isn’t exactly what I’m focusing on; it’s more the time spent trying to improve our outer beauty, apposed to time given improving our spiritual beauty.  God’s not looking for hair that is straighter, curlier, most hair sprayed, or most glamorous.  He’s looking for a humble heart, and a beauty that only comes from knowing Him. There’s a beauty in holiness.

“Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the

beauty of holiness.”  

          Psalms 29:2  

“But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.” 

1 Samuel 16:7  

If God doesn’t look at the outward appearance, why on Earth do we focus on looking the very best?  We spend so much time in front of a mirror, making sure our make up is done just right or making sure our hair is gelled and spiked just enough.  I’m including myself in this.  I’m not saying it’s wrong to look nice, I’m not saying that at all.  What we need to focus on isn’t the outward beauty this world strives for, but the spiritual beauty that is on the inside.  Spiritual beauty is gauged by the Word of God. The Bible is our spiritual mirror.  So, what mirror are you using more??  Or, an even better question would be, what is it reflecting?  When we read God’s Word,  what is God trying to tell us?  Read verses in Matthew about being the salt and the light, then ask  yourselves, “Are we being that light for Christ that can’t be hid?”

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.” 

Matthew 5:13-14  

What about chapter 6 of Matthew, where do we put our hearts?

“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”  

Matthew 6:19-21  

We can’t forget about a very convicting verse in Mark either.  It makes us ask, “Do we really love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength?”  Do we really?

“And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.”  

Mark 12:30  

Can we really love Him with every inch of our being? Can we love Him like He loves us? The answer is no.  We’re not perfect.  But, He does want our all, though we may be small and have little to give.   He wants us to give our all, no matter how small, everything we have and holding nothing back. One of my favorite examples of only having little to give, but giving it all, is when Jesus fed the multitude. There are 4 accounts of this event, but the one that God used to impact me was the account that mentions the boy.

“After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. 

And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. 

And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh. When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do. 

Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little. One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.” 

John 6:1-11  

He was just a boy, but he gave all he had to Jesus.  It‘s a lot more than we can say we‘ve done sometimes.  Just like the boy, I don’t have much to offer Jesus, but He doesn’t need much.  He took the five loaves and two fish and used the boys small offering to do amazing things.  You may be saying something like Simon Peter said.  What is one Christian against this world? It’s just a drop in the ocean, right?  Well, look what God did with one boy giving his all.  Have you given your all?  What does your reflection look like?

~Beautifully Created 4 Christ~

~Proverbs 4:23~