Over the last few weeks as I look in the mirror each morning, I have noticed some unwanted changes in myself.  My first thoughts every morning are, I am looking old!  My mind begans to race thinking what can I do to change the course of nature that is attacking my face!  Brown spots, dark circles under the eyes, wrinkles, hair growing in places it shouldn't be! Ok ladies, you know what I mean.   Who wants to look in the mirror each morning to face the inevitable?  You know we want the mirror to show a young beautiful face that never changes!  We go to the store to buy products that only try to slow down the aging process, cover up spots or get rid of those unwanted hairs!  Some of us spend a lot of money, time and effort into changing what the mirror throws at us every time we look in it.  Sometimes I laugh thinking about how much work we put in the process of changing what we don’t like when it comes to our physical image. 

You know the mirror is like the Word of God.  Every time we open it, it reflects our spiritual image.  It reflects things in our hearts that we don’t want to deal with.  John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”.  If the Word is God then that means God is holding that spiritual mirror up and saying, “Ok Tammy, there is something there that needs to be removed because it doesn’t reflect what I am”.  James 1:22-25 says but be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.  For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.  The Living Bible says it this way, And remember, it is a message to obey, not just to listen to. So don't fool yourselves.  For if a person just listens and doesn't obey, he is like a man looking at his face in a mirror; as soon as he walks away, he can't see himself anymore or remember what he looks like. But if anyone keeps looking steadily into God's law for free men, he will not only remember it but he will do what it says, and God will greatly bless him in everything he does.  2 Corinthians 3:18 says but we Christians have no veil over our faces; we can be mirrors that brightly reflect the glory of the Lord. And as the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him. 

The more we look at the Word and become doers of the Word as John said, the more we will be like Jesus.  I heard a young lady's testimony on the internet not too long ago stating that the devil didn’t attack her in her prayer life but in reading the Word.  You know why? Because the devil knows Word of God is powerful and will change us if we will be doers and not hearers only.   We don’t read the Word more because we don’t like the reflection we see when we read it.  What if we decided to do this to our physical image; never look in the mirror because we don’t like what we see?  Our image would look pretty scary after a while and no one would want to be around us.  That’s what we are doing to our spiritual image when we don’t keep in the Word.  David said in Psalms 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.  The more we stay in the Word the more we will renew our minds and transform into the image of Christ reflecting His glory. I challenge you as I challenge myself.  Stay in the Word!