Re:Verse passage – James 1:19-27 (day three)
“…he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror.”
Peering into a mirror will motivate one to straighten a collar or address a grooming concern. It will perhaps prompt feelings of worry over one’s physical characteristics. But a mirror will only reflect the ways of thinking already present in your own head. You will regard the image you see in a mirror according to the way you’ve been taught you should appear. Peering into the scriptures, on the other hand, will place you in an encounter with God rather than with your own notions of the world. The mirror’s image is a feedback loop that reinforces what you believe. James says the word of God will reveal new things that will lead you to a new kind of living – the kind of living that Jesus said is eternal.
I love this analogy! Such truth & wisdom in it. The Word of God changes, corrects our view. Lines it up with how God sees us and desires us to be. Thank you, Bryan.