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mirror and I say, “I don’t see me.” But God says, “It’s you.” It’s
not how you see you. God says, “It’s how I see you.”

When I come with a veiled face I see ugliness. That’s not how God
sees me. I see my sin. That’s not how God sees me. I see my
weakness. That’s not how God sees me. I see all my faults. That’s
not how God sees me. That’s what Paul meant when he says, “By
the renewing of your mind.” I will never think like God until God
renews my mind.

I see my sin and God sees me clothed in the righteousness of Jesus.
I look in the mirror and I see Ed Miller on earth. God says, “That’s
not what I see. I see Ed Miller sitting in the heavenly places.” I see
myself as inadequate and helpless. I see Jesus victorious. In my
own eyes I’m a barren branch. God sees me as a branch attached to
the vine and having that life. I see me; God sees me in Christ Jesus.

Sometimes I get discouraged with some Christian because I don’t
see Christ in that Christian. One time the Holy Spirit rebuked me.
He said, “You are trying to see Christ in that Christian. Try seeing
that Christian in Christ.” It made such a difference. I was so critical.
I said, “He’s not growing. I want to shake him. I want to do what
the child did to the flower and say, ‘Grow!’” But God’s seed is in
Him. Even though I don’t see it with my natural eyes, he’s being
conformed to the Christ. God engineers everything to conform us
to our parents; from one degree of glory to another we are being
changed as we see Christ in the mirror. Every new revelation of
Christ makes me more like Christ.

I want to show the relationship between the gaze and the glory. He
said, “As I gaze, I’m changed.” The more I gaze, the more I’m
changed. James 1:24, “…for once he has looked at himself and gone
away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.”
Do you hear what James is saying? If I walk away from the mirror,
I’ll forget who I am. I’ll forget who I am in Christ. That’s why