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This is a lot more hair on my head than I usually have, and it's something that is going to need to be dealt with.
This look in the mirror reminded me of a book I read recently.
Here are a few quotes from that book having to do with what each of us sees in the mirror:
Sin is like an umbrella. God's grace can be pouring down all around you, even blessing your family or your friends at church, but all that God is giving fails to fall upon you because of sin. Like a big umbrella high over your head, sin blocks the showers of blessing from reaching your life.
You can study the Bible until your head explodes or serve in the Sunday school until the church wants to hire you full time, but in the end your relationship with God is just about one thing: putting away your sin.
It's your sin that hinders you from experiencing a downpour of revival. Not sin in the neighborhood or sin in the newspaper, but sin in the mirror.
Evangelical Christians are good at seeing sin on television and in the church lobby, but we fail miserably at seeing sin in the mirror.
(excerpted from Downpour by James Macdonald, emphasis mine)
Looking in the mirror can reveal whether we need a haircut or a shave or need to lose a few pounds. But an honest look in the mirror can also reveal much more.
What is your look in the mirror revealing today? Perhaps anger. Or anxiety. Bitterness. Envy. Fear. Greed. Idolatry. Impatience. Lust. Prejudice. Self-righteousness. Bad temper. Vanity. Or something else.
Sin is any failure to conform to God's standards. And those standards are revealed in His Word.
Today might be a good day to take an honest look in the mirror.
It might reveal more than the need for a haircut!
"Whatever is not of faith is sin." (Romans 14:23 NASB)
"If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us."
(1 John 1:8 NASB)
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9 NASB)
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