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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
we’ve got to keep looking in the mirror; not to learn about the mirror
but to see the Lord. Then, as we see the Lord, we are changed!

Two things happen if you stop seeing Jesus. Number one, you are
going to forget who you are. Number two, the process will stop. As
you gaze, you are changed. If you stop gazing, the sanctification
process is over. That’s the process. The starting point is seated in
you. The process is that you look in the Bible to see Jesus and we’re
changed.

When we see the Lord and we’re changed, some people get
confused what that means. They think, “If I see Him as a great
forgiver, I’ll become a great forgiver.” But the Bible says, “He who
has been forgiven much, loves much.” So, when I see Jesus, I’m
changed. That’s true. But if I see Jesus as a Teacher, I don’t become
a teacher. I become a student. If I see Him as my Lord, I don’t
become as a lord. I become a servant. What if I saw Jesus as
omnipresent? Do I become omnipresent? That’s not what it means.

Let me illustrate from Psalm 23, “The Lord is my Shepherd.” Let’s
say that God shows me Christ as my Shepherd. Do I become a