Sometimes the hardest thing to do is look in the mirror. There is the mirror that we face each morning as we prepare to meet the world head on. We spend time making ourselves 'presentable'. We cover our faults and buff what we can't cover. The older we get the longer and tougher it gets to obtain the image or appearance we feel we must present to others. It's hard to just be ourselves in a world that judges appearances as reality. There is also a mirror that reads our inner person... our souls. Through our perception of truth, our souls issue a daily report on our inner selves. For many the concept of truth is fuzzy, if not confusing. What can we tune ourselves to for spiritual guidance that will enable our souls to be at peace when we look inward? In the New Testament book of James chapter 1 and vs. 23 we read, "Because if anyone is a hearer of the word (truth) and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at himself, goes away, and right away forgets what kind of man he was. But the one who looks intently in the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts--this person will be blessed in what he does.
There is a conscience embedded in our soul that won't let us stay 'ugly' on the inside. God wants to put the lasting beauty of a transformed character into all of us. There is one mirror we dare not avoid in life. The mirror of truth found in the word of God. Today, choose to place yourself in the presence of the perfect law of freedom.... and get beautiful from the inside out!
Jim
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