Seeing Us In The Bible

When one looks at the Tabernacle in the Wilderness that the Almighty gave the plans for to Moses, we see a court yard and how one was to approach God. Just before the priest could enter the presences of God he had to approach a certain piece of furniture. It was called the Brazen Laver. It stood on a pedestal and was made of the polished brass looking glasses (mirrors) that were brought and dedicated by the women of Israel. The reflective property of the water was enhanced by the mirror like brass of this laver. Thus everyone who approached it could see themselves in the reflection of it. The priest had to wash both his hands and his feet in this laver before he could enter the presences of God. This laver is a symbol of baptism where the blood of the sacrifice of our repentance causes our sins to be washed away in Jesus Name. We are cleansed so that sin no more has power over us.

It also is a symbol of our need of continual examination and washing of the Word of God.

Just as the priest continually washed his life before he entered to meet with God we too must daily examine ourselves in the mirror of the Word of God and allow it to cleanse us. We must look into the mirror of the Scriptures and be washed and changed by the Word of God.

Pastor James wrote in his book. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 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.

James 1:22-25 NKJV

If we are not careful and also approaching the Word of God daily with our lives, we will simply attend church and walk away. We will hear the Word on Sunday, pray in an altar, then walk out and forget on Monday what kind of person we are. We will fail to change. Yet the Word of God promises that if we will not forget but continue to look into the Word of God and become a doer we will be greatly blessed.

The laver is where we see ourselves mirrored in the Word of God. The Word of God reveals our motives and intents of our heart. At this altar we stand before God and behold the truth about ourselves and are brutally honest with ourselves; for God demands truth in our inward parts. It is at this altar that we open the door to the rooms of our heart and allow the Word of God to change us into the image of Christ. We do this by reading and studying the Word of God. It must be a daily approach to the mirror of His Word. Here we should pray, “Let it be according to Thy Word, Your will and Your way! This is so important because God will not receive anyone who is not honest about their life before Him. Here we must ask God to gird us with the Truth of the Word. Ask God to cover the support of our life, that which governs the direction of our daily life, with the truth of the Word of God that we may not waver. Ask God to allow the helmet of salvation to be on our heads to protect us from human ideas and the influence of this world that are contrary to the Bible. Seeing our lives in the Word of God will change us into the image of God if we will be honest at how we see our lives in the Word of God and become a doer of the Word.

Yes, we will be tempted as the Apostle James wrote to walk away and forget what we saw. Yet, if we will continually approach the Word and see our lives we can change and be blessed.

Today devotion from My Utmost for His Highest reads like this.

The most important rule for us is to concentrate on keeping our lives open to God. Let everything else including work, clothes, and food be set aside. The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God. We must maintain a position of beholding Him, keeping our lives completely spiritual through and through. Let other things come and go as they will; let other people criticize us as they will; but never allow anything to obscure the life that “is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3). Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it. The most difficult lesson of the Christian life is learning how to continue “beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord . . . .” (2 Corinthians 3:18)

I challenge you today to stop and see how your life looks in the mirror of the Word of God. See how close you are to the image of Christ. Don’t rush past this. We must look at our lives and living if we intend on approaching the presence of God with our life.

How does your living look today in the mirror of His Word?