As a lady, one of the things I can’t help doing is looking into the mirror to see how I look. Even though my husband says am already beautiful without make up, I still cannot help but double check. Apart from checking myself in the mirror from head to toe to see if am all set and nothing is missing, the mirror also points out the little acne that is fast growing on the side of my cheek or for those that are older, a line of wrinkle at the corner of their eyes.
The mirror is such a critical tool that is found in most houses, offices and even public toilets. You cannot go for an interview without spending extra time in the mirror just to see if you are looking your best. If you are going for a date, even as a guy who rarely checks the mirror, this special occasion will most definitely prompt you to take a look at yourself in the mirror, I mean you don’t want to show up in front of the lady you are hoping will be the ‘one’ looking awkward. Most women have a little mirror in their purses and men who value how they look will most likely check out themselves in the mirror just before stepping out.
Although the mirror can only show us what we look like physically, there is another mirror that reveals even much more than the way we look physically. This mirror is the Word of God.
The mirror on your bathroom wall or night stand shows you the things that are visible to the human eyes and these things are only temporary. We spend ample time focusing on these things, we spend our money correcting these things (which is not all together wrong) and we spend a considerable amount of effort making sure that we look perfect or almost outwardly. But how much profit do these efforts bring into the kingdom of God?
“While we look not at the things which are seen but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2Cor4v18
The word of God is eternal, it has the power to reveal both the things that can be seen and the things that cannot be seen with the human eyes. When we switch from looking so much into the mirror on our wall and focus on looking into the word of God, we see things about ourselves that only the word of God can show us.
The word of God is the only mirror that can never break. It shows us the very heart of God, it reveals to us God’s perfect will. It uncovers our weaknesses and hidden sins. “For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even then division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart.” Heb 4:12
There are many books you will read throughout your life time, but none of them can be compared to the word of God. There are many self-help books flooding the bookshelves but none of them can help you like the word of God can. The word of God has the power to transform your life; it has the power to bring to life that which was once dead and forgotten. It has the power to heal, restore, renew, refresh and create.
How much time do you spend with the word of God? Are you distracted with all your day-to-day activities? Are you lost in the pool of “I have to do this, I must meet this deadline, I need to get this out of the way,” that you barely make out time for God’s word but you have a to-do list for everything else? The moment you begin to look less into the mirror of the word of God and more into the mirror on your wall, you will lose sight of God and the things he has in store for you. “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is near.” Rev 1:3
How can you maintain your walk with God, how can you escape the destruction that is fast consuming the world? By abiding in the word of God and doing all he says therein. “How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word.” Ps119:9
The word of God is not only for our reading but more importantly for our doing.
Beloved, what really matters in this life and the hereafter is what the word of God says. Just as seasons change, opinions change, ideologies become obsolete, and school of thoughts fade away. If you base your life on all these, imagine how unstable you will be without any strong foundation. The word of God is only word that never changes and the wise build their lives upon it but the foolish ignore it. It does not fade away nor is subject to the opinion of men. It was, it is and it will forever be.
“Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will by no means pass away.” Matt 24v35
“All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the LORD endures forever.” 1 pet 1v24-25
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