The Looking Glass

Colossians 2:13-15 You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ. He forgave all our sins. He canceled the record that contained the charges against us. He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ's cross. In this way, God disarmed the evil rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross of Christ.

 

Sometimes life's circumstances can bring about memories from our past. Some are good, some are bad, and some are just memories. When those memories flood our conscience mind, we choose how to appropriate them. They can either help us to be an over comer (victor) or (victim) further solidifying our pain from the past that hinders us from the Father's loving freedom.

 

This time in Florida has been new and exciting for me. The Lord has guided my pen to produce a deeper freedom in my life. It is my desire that He would use these writings to entice you to a brighter and freeing presence.

 

Jmes 1:23 For if you just listen and don't obey, it is like looking at your face in a mirror but doing nothing to improve your appearance.

 

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"

 

That is from an old nursery rhyme and was used by a wicked person who used a demonic being in the looking glass. This demon promoted judgment, hatred, and revenge! You can figure out the rest!

 

As I see it, the Word is our looking glass. Not to compare us to another, nor for judgment of others. The Word reflects who we are in Christ and how our character measures up to Christ Jesus. How are you measuring up lately?

 

Romans 7:4-6 So this is the point: The law no longer holds you in its power, because you died to its power when you died with Christ on the cross. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, you can produce good fruit, that is, good deeds for God. When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced sinful deeds, resulting in death. But now we have been released from the law, for we died with Christ, and we are no longer captive to its power. Now we can really serve God, not in the old way by obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way, by the Spirit.

 

Acts 4:11 For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says, 'The stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.'

 

So if the Lord gives you a memory, a scripture, or a dream, measure it up with the cornerstone, your measuring rod! Have the Holy Spirit flush out things not of Him and infuse us with those mysteries He has stored up with our welfare in mind!

 

Ephesians 1:3-14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ F2 before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will, so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God's own people, to the praise of his glory.

 

Next time you look in the mirror, ask yourself, "Lord what do you see in me? How am I being a reflection of Your Son, my friend, and brother, Jesus?"