Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
My brothers, today I ask you:
when you look in the mirror, do you see Jesus? Do you look in the mirror of
your soul and see some area or improvement that you need, or has your mirror
gotten too dirty to reflect? Is the mirror
of your soul showing you something that you ignore? I ask you today: is there
something that you can do for someone that Jesus has laid on your heart that
would answer a Christian brother or sister’s prayer;
and ignore? Maybe you have something that you’re praying about that is going
unanswered, because you are ignoring helping someone else. Maybe your whole
church is hurting because one family is going hungry, while you go out and eat
a steak! One of our biggest problems today is that when we look in the mirror,
all we do is see ourselves. Did you know the word “give” is in the Bible 811
times? Proverbs 25:21 “If thine
enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to
drink.” If our heavenly father commands us to give all this to our enemies,
then what is going to happen when we won’t even help our own brothers and
sisters? Nothing. That is exactly what is going to
happen to you! Nothing: no answered prayers and surely no blessings for a
disobedient Christian. Matthew
All I’m saying is that we could be entertaining angels and
not even know it. We might be cheating our whole church when we could be
bringing blessings to the church; out of our selfishness, we just see the one
man in the mirror and are not even helping him.
Is there a Christian who has gone carnal and all you do is
beat him into the ground? Even if you don’t have any money to give, the
greatest thing you can give is your power to pray! You see, a man with a lot of
wealth can give a whole lot less; no matter how much he gives, if he doesn’t
give everything the Lord lays on his heart to give. Jesus does not want some,
He wants you to give your all! After all, He gave us his life on
Amen
- Jason Blythe