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Breaking The Mirror

Written by Frank Jamerson.

Can you change the way you look by breaking the mirror? Spiritually, many try this by rejecting God’s word. When we don’t like what we see in the mirror, we need to work on what we see, not the mirror!

On the day of Pentecost, many were “pricked in their hearts,” because they were convicted of their sins, or “cut to the heart.” When they asked the apostles what to do, they were told to “repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38). Later, a group hearing the same message from Stephen were “cut to the heart” and they broke the mirror—killed the messenger (Acts 7:54-60).

Preaching that makes a person feel good in disobedience to God is a curse instead of a blessing. If the truth hurts a person’s feelings, he needs to change his feelings—not try to change the truth. “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for  he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does” (Jas. 1:23-25).

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