Thought for Tuesday, January 8th

January 8, 2013

Do You Remember

Can you describe with clarity what you saw in the mirror this morning?

         

 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.

James 1:22-25

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory…  The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient – at others, so bewildered and so weak – and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! -  We are to be sure a miracle in every way – but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out.”

-       Jane Austin

Is it not a strange phenomenon that we see ourselves in a different light than most of our observers: and our recollections of events are often shadowed by our prides and prejudices?  This is often true of our spiritual nature as well.  If we were to look into the mirror of God’s vantage do you think we would see the same image and observe the same levels and degrees of faith, obedience and service that He sees?

When you looked into His word and allowed it to be a reflective mirror of your life: do you recall with clarity what you saw- and did what you recall align itself with what God might have seen?

Do we allow our faith to take us beyond our perceptions to trust God enough to allow Him to show us what we really are and how He might want to change us?

To be a true doer of the Word we have to allow the word to show us what we really are and then we need to allow it to affect the needed changes that will make us into what God wants us to be.

So what did you really see in the mirror of God’s Word today, or have you even dared to look?

Today’s Prayer

Father, may my memory of what I see when your Word shows me an image of what I am versus what I need to be, not be distorted or clouded; but may it be crisp and clear and may I be willing to allow you to affect whatever makeover is needed;  even if it is extreme.