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God’s Word is like a Mirror

 

We looked at how the Word of God defines itself as a “Fire.”

Fire has different effects, according as the matter is on which it works; it hardens clay, but softens wax; it consumes the dross, but purifies the gold. So the word of God is to some a savour of life unto life, to others of death unto death (II Corinthians 2:16). God appeals here to the consciences of those to whom the word was sent: “Is not my word like fire? Has it not been so to you? 

Today, let’s look at another definition of the Word from the Word.

 

God’s Word is like a mirror that will show who you really are.

James 1:23 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: James 1:24 - For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 

James 1:25 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 

“O the gift that God would give us,

To see ourselves as others see us.”

Luke 6:47 - Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: 

Luke 6:48 - He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 

Luke 6:49 - But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. 

 

God’s Word as a “Fire” will reveal who a person actually is. God’s Word as a mirror will show a person who they really are if they will look in the Word and not be forgetful.