In the New American Standard Bible (NASB) the word "mirror" occurs three times.
1 Corinthians 13:12 says, "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known." We gaze into a mirror "dimly." This word literally means "in a riddle." And who of us sees the world and ourselves without distortion, at least some of the time?
And who of us haven't looked into the Word of God, seen ourselves and what we should or shouldn't be doing, and put the mirror down and walked away with no intention of change. James said, "For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was" (James 1:23).
And, I think the mirror is the Word of God in 2 Corinthians 3:18 where the Apostle says, "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit." The Bible is a perfect mirror and tells us the truth about ourselves, the way of being right with the Almighty and gives us invaluable insight into the world around. It is one hundred per cent reliable. Phillip Brooks said, "truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks."
The Bible, God's mirror, always tells us accurately what anything or anyone really is. It focuses on Jesus Christ. If we gaze on Him we, by His Spirit, become like Him. It is said that a husband and wife, if they live long enough together, begin to look like each other. I don't know about that but the verse tells us if we, gazing upon Jesus in the mirror of God's Word, we, by the Spirit take on His likeness. And by this supernatural process, distortion gradually lessens.
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