There is a mirror in the lounge room and it is quite sizeable. Cleaning it is quite a task, a task I have to admit that does not get done as often as it should.
In fact the surface of the mirror was so dimmed that when I looked into it, it worried me to a state of work overload. My own reflection looked awful and so did everything else reflected there. I panicked.
The doctor called in and he prescribed medication. No, not for the mirror, for me. He said it would ease my work-sensitivity so that when I looked into the murky mirror, it simply would not matter.
Then the medication wore off. My reflection in the mirror still looked awful and I panicked into work-sensitivity again.
Then the Minister called and he loaned me some rose-tinted glasses that turned all the reflections into a vague, grainy beige. When I went to Church, I saw that everybody else was wearing rose-tinted glasses so everything they looked at was a vague, grainy beige, too.
But when I took the glasses off, the mirror was still murky, my reflection was awful and my work-sensitivity was still there.
I was so tired, I huddled down and asked my Saviour to come by. Later I looked at up at the mirror and the whole reflection had changed. I did not see myself at all. Instead I saw my Saviour, clear shining, and smiling. He filled the whole mirror, no smudges.
So now because of faith in what I see every time I look into the mirror, the work–sensitivity is gone. The face there is so beautiful, I cannot wait to invite all my friends to come and look into the mirror.
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” (Isaiah 1:18).
Of course! “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1).
PS; I enjoy cleaning the mirror now because of what is reflected in it.
Elizabeth Price