What do we see when we look in the mirror?
We don’t see ourselves, for sure. Oh, there is that face we are familiar with, but that’s not what we really see.
It’s like sitting in the church balcony and not catching the name of the visiting minister. We see a middle-aged man walk across the platform, and all we see is someone past the prime of life, with a slight paunch, and thinning hair. Then he starts to speak, and we realize we know this man from college. Once that hits us, he looks completely different.
Rather than seeing what he is, we see him as he was.
When we look in our mirror, we see the person we used to be. In our minds, we are always younger, thinner, and better tanned than the person that looks back at us. If we don’t believe it, pay attention to store windows, or walk down the mirror aisle in a store. Catch that unexpected reflection.
Do we even know who we are? Can we find the “now” us? Can we emboss the “future” on that person we used to be?
God can.
Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 declares, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
1 Thessalonians 5:9 promises, “For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
When we look in a mirror, we overlay our past perceptions into that image standing before us. However, the mirror looks back at us, and it sees us as we really are. God, on the other hand, can do even more. He can see us as we will be.
When we see ourselves in God, he reflects our future back at us.
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