mirror, mirror

been reading deuteronomy during lent and i am learning…

God is Holy

we are so not

and oh boy, am i thankful for Jesus!

and below are some thoughts that have been humbling me and keeping me silent these days…

“The first requirement is that you must not look at the mirror, observe the mirror, but must see yourself in the mirror…. The second requirement is that in order to see yourself in the mirror when you read God’s Word you must (so that you actually do come to see yourself in the mirror) remember to say to yourself incessantly: It is I to whom it is speaking; it is I to whom it is speaking…. Finally, if you want to look at yourself in the mirror with true blessing, you must not promptly forget how you looked, you must not be the forgetful hearer (or reader) of whom the apostle says: He looked at his bodily face in a mirror but promptly forgot how he looked.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“In meditation we often have our false self stripped away and our true self revealed–that we care a great deal about what other people think of us or that our possessions mean more to us than we thought. Under normal circumstances this would be painful and embarrassing, but in meditation we have yielded ourselves to the hands of the Potter, who is safe and will do the molding without breaking us. We get a sense of God having seen through us, having loved us deeply, and having called us to something better. We taste and see that God is good. Our character changes because we have a new vision of God and of how God calls us to participate in a kingdom of goodness and obedience.” -jan johnson

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. – James 1:22-25