What Kind of Mirror Do You Have?

What Kind of Mirror Do You Have?
This morning, God woke me up at 5:00 am and I went into the living room, got my Bible and sat down and began to read in Luke chapter 11. As I read it, I read where the Pharisees were looking at things Jesus was doing and finding fault in Him, accusing Him, and trying to point out what they felt like He was doing that wasn't right. I read on down and when I reached verse 9 and 10 where Jesus said, "Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it shall be open unto you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door will be opened. As I read this, in my heart I said, "that's what I want to do", and I've said this before when I would read this. But then, God began to speak to me and opened my eyes to something I've never seen before.............
What kind of mirror are you looking in? If you remember the kids program that used to be on called Romper Room (some of you may not be old enough to remember this program) the woman, at the end of every program, always had a magic mirror that she looked through, and she supposedly could see little kids out in TV land. She would look through that mirror and say, "I see Tommy, and Bobby, I see Katie and Shelia....and maybe I'll see you next week on Romper Room! I remember how I used to set in front of that tv, hoping she would see me! Well, this morning, God showed me two different kind of mirrors. And He asked me this question... "Are you looking in your Spiritual Full Length Mirror or are you spending more time looking through the Romper Room Magical mirror? You see, if we look in our Spiritual full length mirror, we can see the truth. When we stand in front of a full length mirror, we can see from head to toe, if everything looks right, or if we need to change something. We can see if we need to wash off something that we didn't know was there, or maybe if something's out of place....we can see everything in that full length mirror. Well if we look into our Spiritual Full length mirror, we can see what needs to be changed, what doesn't look quite right, something that we need God to help us clean up. It's not a mirror that we sometimes find at a fair or carnival that is distorted and we can't see the true picture. We can't move a certain way and look better, or smaller, or bigger...no, our spiritual mirror is a TRUE mirror that lets us see what we truely look like.
Then there is that Romper Room mirror, that magical mirror, that lets us look through it and see everybody else but ourselves. Do you have a Romper Room mirror? Come on, let's be truthful....All of us at one time or another have picked up that Romper Room mirror that let's us see everyone else's faults, what we think they are doing wrong, their flaws, what we don't like about them. But how many times do we look into that spiritual mirror? See where our flaws are, our mistakes, what we need to change? Well this morning, the Lord showed me that it's times to put away the Romper Room mirror..........start looking in that Spiritual mirror..every day, just like we do that mirror each morning and throughout the day to check and make sure we look okay, and see how we're looking spiritually. Is everything okay? Do we have on our whole armor of God? Are we doing what God wants us to do? Are we truely forgiving those who wrong us? (and that is very hard to do at times) Are we showing compassion to those around us? Are we taking the time to witness to others? Are we finding things to praise God in, even when it seems like everything is going wrong?
I do know this.....God opened my eyes this morning, gave me this message, and put it on my heart to share it with you, and I am obeying Him in this. Take a look at yourself today, search your heart, see which mirror you are using.....I know I had to this morning.... The Spiritual Mirror....or the ...Romper Room Mirror?
God bless you today......... ~Renee

Are you?

Last night, as I was reading in the Bible, God allowed me to open to a scripture that touched my heart and I wanted to share it with you. I was feeling a little on edge last night, so many things have happened the past 2 weeks, and it seemed as if everything had just piled up on me last night, so the enemy was trying to throw things at me. As I picked up the Bible and opened it. God brought a scripture to me in Psalms 145:8 and it reads, "The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love". As I read this I began thinking about it and I realized that I wanted to be like that. I want to be compassionate to people. I want to evaluate their circumstances and try to understand what they might be going through and have compassion for them. I also want to be ...slow to anger... It's so easy to allow the enemy at times, to cause us to get angry with people about something that maybe doesn't go quite right, or if they say things to hurt our feelings or cause us to feel pain, then sometimes it makes us feel that anger. But we need to strive to be slow to anger. Then last but most importantly, be RICH in love.... Rich means having an abundant supply...so this is saying God has an abundant supply of love! And that's the way we should strive to be! Having an abundance of love, and that's hard to have sometimes when people hurt you or tear you down. But Jesus had that kind of love, when he gave his life for us. But we're not God, and we're not perfect, but we need to strive to love as much as possible, and not only say we do, but truely feel that love! Are you slow to anger and rich in love? Maybe it's something you have to work on...I know I need to.... God bless .... ~Renee