Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

I have been on a mission trip to India the last couple of weeks so I have missed blogging. It is good to be back and I will have a few blogs relating to my trip coming up but I need to get this one out first. Here is a question- How do I know what I look like? or even better- How do I know how I should feel about me? God positioned my eyes so I cannot see my own face. I know we have mirrors but the mirror I really pay attention to is the one in your face. I feel about myself how I think you feel about me. If I walked into a room where everyone thought I had the face of a god then it wouldn't take long for me to start feeling pretty good about myself. If I walked into a room where everyone thought I was hideous it wouldn't take long for my self image to plummet. My self image really isn't a self image. My image of myself is based on what I think you think about me. Weird. This, like most things, got me thinking about the Bible and Jesus and one verse in particular. Someday, the Bible says, I will see God face to face. Why is that so important? That will be the only time I will really know what I look like. I will look into the face of God searching that face like a mirror to tell me who I really am and how I should feel about me. And the truth is, that will be the greatest moment of my life because the face of God will shout at me that I am beautiful beyond description. Jesus died on a cross for me and when he did he gave me a part of himself. I gave him all the ugliness of my soul and he gave me the beauty of his. So, today, instead of looking to your face to see how I should feel about me, I will look at the face of God. That is a mirror I can trust to tell me the truth and the truth is that He has made me look good. Weird times two.