Reflection

The other day I posed a question that just "randomly" came to my mind to some of the members of my household. I asked them how would it feel to live in a world where you could not see your own reflection at all. Let us say there was no means of seeing your own reflection...no mirrors...no water reflection...no cameras...no apparatus that would allow you to see your image.

I really did not know why this philosophical type of question came to my mind. One of the first thoughts that came to my mind about this question involved the Trinity of God. Where the Bible says in Colossians 1 that Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God. So, Jesus is the reflection or image of what God thinks of Himself and at the very same time being a unique eternal person of the Trinity of God.

Although this is true and one could come up with perhaps many different "angles" that fit into the question I posed earlier about reflection. I believe God was speaking to me about a different angle primarily one that deals with the issue of faith.

Let me explain, after this original question came to my mind I had several conversations with various friends over the weekend about faith, prayer, overcoming sin, purity, etc.

This Sunday morning as I picked up the book I am currently reading by A.W. Tozer called The Pursuit of God. I now know what the Lord was trying to tell me through that particular philosophical question that was ingrained in my mind earlier in the week.

The following quote from Tozer really touched me and I hope it is a blessing to you as well:

"Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its very nature scarely conscious of its own existence. Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One. While he looks at Christ, the very things he has so long been trying to do will be getting done within him. It will be God working in him to will and to do.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One toward Whom it is directed. Faith is a redirecting of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus. Sin has twisted our vision inward and made it self-regarding. Unbelief has put self where God should be, and is perilously close to the sin of Lucifer who said, "I will set my throne above the throne of God." Faith looks out instead of in and the whole life falls into line."