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polished brass. Usually our mirror are glass and on the back
they are silver; something to reflect light. We all know what a
mirror does. It reflects what is in front of it. If I look in a mirror
I see me. Here’s a great a simple truth. Mirrors don’t lie. There
might be a trick mirror in the Fun House, concave, that will
distort things.
Sometimes my Lillian acts like my mirror. She’ll stand
in front of me and say, “You’ve got a big ugly hair coming out
of your nose.” When I see my Lillian come with the scissors
behind her back I know what is going to happen. She’s going
to cut my bushy eyebrows. If I stand in front of a mirror I see
me. If there are pimples, I see pimples. If there are wrinkles on
my face, I’ll see wrinkles. If yesterday’s breakfast is still on my
face, I’ll still see that. Mirrors tell the truth and they don’t lie.
2 Corinthians 3:18, “But we all, with unveiled face
beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as
from the Lord, the Spirit.” The Lord said that when you look
to Him, He takes the veil away. Then you don’t have a veil and
you come in front of a mirror and there is no veil. When I stand
in front of a mirror I expect to see me but when I stand in front
of the word of God, I don’t see me. I see the glory of the Lord.
That’s not a light. That’s Jesus. It’s a revelation of Jesus. As
I look, I ask, “Does He have ugly hairs coming out of His nose?
Does He have mars and blemishes? Does He have bags under
his eyes?” He’s perfect and He’s beautiful and He’s amazing.
He’s like His salvation – how great! It’s Jesus!
If you didn’t have the unveiled face and you came to the
word of God, you would see yourself. You can only see Jesus
when you have an unveiled face. If you have a veiled face
you’ll look in the mirror and you’ll see yourself.
Understand this concept, please, because it’s the process
of being like Jesus. When you look into the word of God, it’s
really you and you are in front of the mirror but it’s God’s
mirror. I look in the 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.”
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