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beginning; but what is the process? I want us to look at the
process.

Once again there is a Bible illustration in 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.” James
1:23-25, “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer,
he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for
once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has
immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one
who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and
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 mirrors 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 and simple truth. Mirrors don’t lie,
though 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