mirror mirror on the wall.

{For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.}

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

I ran across this teaching today and wanted to share part of it with you. It's a completely different message than what the world is telling us, because it is a message of Truth. It's a message of freedom.

So if the Son sets you free, you will indeed be free. (John 8:36)

The call to the Christian life is not a call to “turn over a new leaf” or working at becoming a better person, but acknowledging our imperfection. To say, “I am flawed," and allowing the Spirit of Christ to transform us into His likeness as we gaze upon Him.


Don't live in discouragement. Don't live in failure. Yes, recognize that we are failures. The point is not to convince each other you're a really good person. The point is to realize and remind each other you really are a failure. You are a sinner. You are imperfect; you are flawed.
But look at Christ. He is perfect. As we consider and look at the moral perfection, the beauty of Christ, we will respect Him. We will worship Him. We will love Him more. We will want to know Him more intimately. We will want to tell others about Him.

We become more and more like Him, then we will reflect His beauty.

As a girl who fights to not expect the reflection in the mirror to be what the world is telling me I should be, I can't be reminded enough to just "look at Christ." In Him alone is where joy, peace, patience, satisfaction, and true beauty are found.

In Christ alone, we are set free. The more we see and know Jesus, the more accurate our understanding of beauty would be.

Praying we would all look at Jesus today and reflect Him to the world.