City streets are good places to find out who we are.
Or at least how we look to others.
It’s the sun and the glass, the dark interiors of the buildings. If a business has highly reflective window tint, that’s even better.
We’re minding our own business, perhaps deep in thought, and we happen to glance to our side, and there we are, amid all the other people going about their business.
It’s different than looking in the mirror in the morning. Then we’ve prepared ourselves for what we will see. The puffy eyes, the crumpled sleepwear. We shave, apply makeup, or whatever we do to prepare for the day, and we imagine ourselves as we want others to see us.
In that off-guard moment, glancing at our plate-glass reflection, we find someone we don’t expect. Out, busy, in action. We blink, decide that’s us, and we must absorb the way everyone else sees us.
Do we appear the same as in our morning mirror? Or does the reality jolt us?
Proverbs 30:12-13 says:
“There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth. There are those—how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift!”
We have a standard, and it’s not up for debate. We can’t remake right and wrong for our generation. We are treading a dangerous line when we say, “That was wrong then, but now we’re enlightened. We have new information.”
That’s called arrogance. Putting ourselves above what’s right and wrong. We’re making a choice to bend the rules so we can pursue the pleasures of the world.
Read the Bible. Understand its standards. We must live them out in everything we do.
When we look like Christ, that’s the best reflection around.
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