My reflection of my reflection in a spoon...

March 2, 2009

I reached into the dishwasher for a spoon for Candan's cereal. In our dishwasher, spoons like to sit with each other (the spoons like to "spoon") and not get totally crud-free. I just wanted to make sure that it was really clean. I looked into the spoon.

What I saw was my reflection, sort of. My face was turned upside down, and all twisty and distorted. I forgot that spoons do that.

Have you ever been to a fun house where there's lots of different mirrors where one makes you thin and tall, another makes you short and stumpy, and one makes you teeny tiny on the top and bottom and really wide in the middle? Still another makes many multiples of yourself? You know those reflections aren't real, right? You'd never believe those as the way you really look. They're just silly distortions.

When we believe what others say about us, and what the media says we lack (we need this product to be happy, or beautiful, etc...) that's just looking in a spoon and believing we look like that.

Here's a glimpse of what it's like to look in a true mirror, the mirror of God's Word:

I am Christ's workmanship. Ephesians 2:10
I am a child of God. John 1:12
I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14
I am loved, forgiven, and part of His kingdom. Revelation 1:5-6
(and that's just the short list!)

When I start to feel like the way I look in a spoon, it helps to stand in front of His mirror.

For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth andlength and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:14-19