The Mirror

I stared into the mirror. Terror filled my heart as the commandment, “Thou shall not lie,” convicted me as a liar, and the commandment, “Thou shall not steal,” convicted me as a thief. I understood how God saw me and realized I had no right to find the path to life. With tears in my eyes, I dropped the mirror and walked away.

This special mirror is the Ten Commandments. When we look into the mirror, it shows we have broken God’s laws. This frightens us and makes us uncomfortable. We want to do what we want. After a while, our conscience becomes quieter. If we walk away, we lose all hope of finding the path leading to life.

Few find the path because none are righteous. God alone must show us the entrance, yet knowing our hearts are evil, He can’t allow anyone access. So, He gave people a conscience to know right from wrong. He also provided a special mirror that would guide us to the entrance of the path.

Some spend time gazing into the mirror but try to clean the sins reflected in it. If we try to justify ourselves in this way, trying our best to do good, the mirror will be our destruction.

Knowing the truth means grasping the mirror tightly and looking deeply within so that it can reveal our hopeless condition before God and show us that it was our sins that put Jesus to death.

Then I heard One crying as He died on a cross: “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me.” As I approached the scene, my memory was etched with the bloody nails lying at the bottom of the cross. Then I knew it was the King Himself who endured the shame and died on my behalf.

There is none righteous, no not one. There is none who does good, no, not one. Romans 10:10-12

You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is fullness of joy. Psalm 16:11