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abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an
effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does.”

God’s illustration is a mirror. The Bible is called “a mirror”.
It’s a wonderful illustration of the process of becoming like
Jesus. In the New Testament the mirror was highly 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