More Than Your Reflection
You Are More Than Your Reflection In The Mirror
What do you see when you look in the mirror every morning?
Bed hair?
Last night’s eye makeup still under your eyes?
Eeeeeck! I’m going back to bed.
Even when we feel like we look our worst, or we don’t feel like seeing or talking to anyone, God knows our potential and He doesn’t want us to waste it.
Every one of us was created for a unique purpose.
That is to say, we are His masterpieces in the making.
I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a wonderful truth to hold on to.
No matter how you interpret your own mirror’s reflection, your faith in salvation through Jesus Christ is precious, and that means it’s worth sharing.
To be created in the image of God means that we were created to be mirrors of God’s glory—one-of-a-kind mirrors that reflect the diverse aspects of His nature. A mirror serves no other purpose than to reflect something else. A mirror is useless when covered in mud; likewise, when we are covered in sin and turned away from God, we are not living out the purpose for which we were created. But when we respond to God’s offer of salvation and allow His Holy Spirit to clean us up, we turn toward our Creator, and His glory is reflected in our lives. It is not our light or beauty the world needs to see, but His. (John 8:12; 9:5). – GotQuestions website.1
We are His, not because we earned it, but by His grace.
As Peter reminded early believers, we are here for Him, for His pleasure and to serve Him.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. – 1 Peter 2:9-10, (NASB).2
So it doesn’t matter what you look like or what your insecurities are – God created you. Even with your imperfections, He can use you for His glory.
While the world looks at your outward appearance, God sees your heart.
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1 Quotation from gotquestions.org, from “Why did God create me?” n.d., para. 7. Web. Accessed January 29, 2023. https://www.gotquestions.org/why-did-God-create-me.html
2Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.
