As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.
Just as gazing into the mirror-like qualities of still water reflects the detailed features of a man’s face, so the standards and qualities residing deep within a heart, reflect a man’s character and displays the innermost measure of his soul. Just as we are enabled to study the physical characteristics of our facial features through the mirror-image, reflected in a clear pool of water, so an examination of the inner thoughts of the heart gives a reliable indication of our spiritual standing…or perhaps uncovers a hypocritical facade. Too often we are quick to identify the qualities, or criticize the defects we see reflected in the life of a fellow believer, but often we are not as swift to identify areas in our own hearts that need to be critically analyzed and spiritually evaluated as unholy or detrimental to our spiritual growth. God alone knows a man’s heart and can read the secret thoughts in the inner depths of his soul, but it is the outworking of those concealed attributes, which are demonstrated through words, actions, and attitudes, that manifests a man’s true identity to his fellow-man. Ambitions and emotions, temptations and trials, hope and fear, inner thoughts and expectations, together with spiritual strengths and weaknesses, can all be reflected in the face and mirrored in the expression of the eyes. It is often as we openly gaze into the reflection of our own face, through the mirror of God’s Word, that we can identify areas that need spiritual adjustment and God’s forgiveness. How important to examine our own heart and scrutinize our inner thoughts, through the mirror-like qualities of the still water and to reflect whatever is good, and pure, and wholesome, and holy. The Word of God is the truthful mirror into which we should look carefully. The Bible is the still water in which to gaze day by day…for the face of Christ is the reflection upon which our hearts should rest. May we preach this truth to our own hearts and be doers of the Word as well as hearers of God’s truth. May we all, with unveiled faces, gaze at the glory of the Lord…as beholding Him in the mirror, so that we may be transformed into His glorious image, from glory to glory, through the power of the indwelling Spirit of the Lord, as we die to self and live for Him.
Spiritual Steve 