Have you ever heard of cleaning your mirrors with a coffee filter? Well, I had never heard of such thing. Of course, the only thing I want to do with a coffee filter is MAKE COFFEE. But, I have this friend who says filters do a really great job of cleaning mirrors because they don’t leave any lint on the mirror itself. When she told me that, I just stood there thinking….no way. What a cool word picture.
So, I have been thinking about filters and mirrors for the last few days. Filters are used for coffee makers, to keep the grounds from being in your coffee. Mirrors are used to see your reflection. But what if we used a filter on our mirror? Mirrors are not intended to have filters. They are there to show a true and honest reflection of what is real. If we filter the mirror, we don’t see what is truly there.
However, the other side of that thought is that if we use a filter in our lives, then the reflection we see will be pure, without blemish or defect or lint. It removes those obstacles and things that cloud our vision from seeing what truly is.
But, perhaps the real lesson here is that we should use a specific filter to help with the reflections that we see in the mirror. The Word of God is like a mirror and a filter. It can be used to filter out what doesn’t need to be so that we can be a clear reflection of the Father. It is also a mirror that we can look into and see what needs to be filtered so that we can look more like the Father everyday.
God was us to be able to look in the mirror and behold the glory of God…without having to use a filter to see. He longs for the day when our reflection is merely Him looking back at us. When we are transformed into HIS image, displaying His glory, unfiltered, unveiled…no obstacles in us seeing or being this.
2 Cor 3:18 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.
Doxa
Christy Upton
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