How many of you looked in the mirror this morning? OK, how many of you liked what you saw? Oh wow! Not very many of us, now is that before or after you fixed yourself up for the day? It must be the mirrors. I remember a time when the guy looking back didn’t have to put on his glasses to see me, and when he could actually run a comb through his hair, and when there wasn’t as much of him standing there. When I step away from the mirror and glance around myself I still pretty much look the same as I always have, to myself anyway. Why are we never satisfied with our looks? With a diet here and an exercise there, here a nip, there a tuck, everywhere a nip tuck… Genesis 1: 27 says, “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Next time you look in the mirror you might think, “Wow God, you’re looking a little rough there this morning.” Remember, it says we were made in His image, not exactly like Him. Let’s look in God’s mirror for a moment remembering that He is more interested in the heart. We are to love God “with all of your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” It doesn’t say with all your looks. Loving God with all of our heart and soul and mind is putting Him above all other things. Don’t like yourself, Jesus has an app to change that. Click on and download 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” In reality, we must be born again in Christ. Believe me, the change will be noticeable to others around you and as they begin to see the difference in you they will tell you. You’ll notice it also. Those things that used to be so appealing just don’t interest you anymore. The shows you watch, the jokes you tell and hear, the music you listen to suddenly sounds foreign. That is the new you in Christ. You are starting to see things in God’s mirror and not the mirror of the world. The Words of the Bible are suddenly making sense to you. Here’s another app you can download, James 1:22-25, “Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the Word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--- he will be blessed in what he does.” Our bodies will continue to change as we grow older but the image of Christ in us is never changing and always beautiful to behold. Lookin’ good, Pastor Dean.
Pastor Dean is the Ministries & Outeach Pastor for LHF.
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