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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.”

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.