Mirrors have been around for a very long time. An obsidian stone was used for a long time because these stones were highly reflective when polished. When metals were discovered and developed, gold, aluminum and silver were used to make mirrors. Silver is still used.
In fact, you could go to your chemist shop (probably next door to Walmart) and buy your supplies: silver nitrate, ammonia/water, Rochelle salt and distilled water. Take a piece of glass with no imperfections and spread the silver (or aluminum) on one side. The back of the mirror is painted in order to protect the coating from flaking.
Of course many surfaces that are polished well can reflect your image. How many of us as children have looked at ourselves in the concave side of a spoon to see our upside down image? When we comment to Ana that she has something on her face, she’ll invariably run to the mustard-yellow kitchen stove and look at the decorative end of the instrument display.
When it comes to our spiritual selves, however, we are more like vampires. No “mirror” will reflect the true self – except the Spirit-mirror, the Word of God. Like funhouse mirrors, other mirrors will only give you a distorted reflection of the true self. You can read and devour Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking and you will learn to think positively. But you won’t be a child of God. You can read and put into practice Zig Ziglar’s See You at the Top and work to help other people but still be a failure in the eyes of God. You can read and digest Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. You will have lots of friends but still be an enemy of God. You can read and reflect the principles in John Maxwell’s leadership books and be a great leader. But you’ll never be able to lead yourself spiritually.
James writes about the importance of this Spirit-mirror in James 1:23-25: “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.”
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Notice verse 25 – One who looks intently at the “perfect law of liberty”. We need to look intently into the mirror that is God’s Word. James refers to this mirror as the “perfect law of liberty”. Notice what James here says about the Truth:
1. It is a law. The New Testament is not full of opinions and suggestions.
2. It is perfect. It is complete, able to make us complete (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:3).
3. It leads us to and provides for our liberty. The Word of God frees us from the love of this world; it frees us from the worry in this world; it certainly frees us from the power of Satan through sin.
Look intently into the Spirit-Mirror, the Word of God, and do what He says. You will be blessed in that.
–Paul Holland
