HELEN SANDERS
8-11-2026
THE MIRROR

As a little girl I loved to stand in front of our old mirror on our kitchen wall. I would make faces, stick out my tongue and just enjoy seeing myself and giggling. Later, I would use that same mirror to see how my hair looked and if I was looking “okay.” Mirrors reflect exactly what they see. Sometimes my reflection was better than it was at other times.

In the book of James chapter 1 verses 22-24 it also talks about a mirror. It says, “22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror]; 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway [immediately] forgetteth what manner of man he was.” In other words, the person ignores the truth of what he sees.

You see, my friend, the word of God reflects truth and shows us what we really “look” like. When it discusses things that are sin and we are involved with that sin and then just ignore what it says, we deceive ourselves. But, if we read the word and it convicts us of sin and we respond to that conviction by repenting, then we are not deceived.

Deception is at its highest as I write this. What once was known as sin is now just called okay. What once was called righteousness is condemned by the sinful heart. We must examine ourselves daily with God’s “Mirror” and when we see our reflection as being less than righteous, we must deal with it so Satan does not have the legal right to condemn and attack us.

Thank God for God’s mirror. It always reflects truth!