Mirror: Part One

Ever notice when you look in the mirror that you don’t really look you only observe. Your wife tells you that you may want to pull out that special clipper that gets rid of hair in places that you really don’t want to have hair hanging out of. So you check your nose. You make sure your sideburns are even.

Some women spend hours in front of a mirror but do they really look at themselves. They are simply observing certain things about their body and face and hair that they like or don’t like. With all the time we spend in front of the mirror how many of us really take the time to look at the person staring back at us.
One of the most difficult things we can do is to get an accurate picture of who we really are. We all have this idea of who want to become or even who we thing we are. We define ourselves by what we do, the titles we bear, or the wealth we carry. We stay busy living that we are afraid to discover that we really don’t have a life. We refuse to look in the mirror.

Then we are forced. It could be a tragedy that causes us to pause. It could be a health report that forces us to examine what is important. It can also be a person. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus tells us to “love our enemies.” Now most of the time when we think of enemies we think of people like Osama bin Laden or the person from the bank who calls looking for that past due payment. Could our enemy also be the person we have grown to love to hate? The one person who sees us for who we really are. The person that we can’t hide from or pretend to be something else. Our enemy may not be the person who lies, steals, and cheats from us but the person that is so honest with us that it frightens us. She is that person that you think is so wonderful and the next day she says something or does something that makes you think twice – not about her but about you. She is that person that reminds you of the difference between you and her and you.

Take a moment to think about the person that most represents Christ for you. Now what is really be asked is who is the person that has told you the truth about yourself so clearly that you wanted to kill him or her for it. Jesus died because he told the truth.