Look! part 1
What you see is what you be. That's something fundamental that we need to understand. What you magnify in your life is what will manifest in your life. 1 John 3:2 tells us, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." We ARE like Him, but in seeing Him... we see ourselves, understand ourselves, and can BE ourselves. So the key is to look. And to look at the right thing. Isaiah 51:1 is my key verse for this Rant series. "Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged." If you're following after righteousness... you need to look at the righteous One. To understand what righteousness is. If you seek the Lord... you have to look at the Lord. If you want to be a chip off the old block, you need to know where you came from. We know what we are--we are the Son(s) of God. But we don't necessarily know what that means all the time. We haven't necessarily come into the fullness of that revelation. It's the same concept that we see in Hebrews 2:8-9, "Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man." Everything is under His feet, which means everything is under our feet. We HAVE overcome because HE has overcomer. That's what makes us overcomers. Not the abiltity to (maybe) overcome, but the fact that we already have. So even though we don't always see ourselves in that way... even though we don't always see things under our feet... we see Jesus. And He is all we need to see. He is the rock that we were hewn from. He is the pattern Son. He is the truth (and the way, and the life). We look to Him and we see what needs to be seen. We look to Him and we see our true selves. And guess what guys, we look to Him by looking in the mirror. "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord" (1 Corinthians 3:18). What you see is what you be. So it's vitally important what you look at. You've probably heard the phrase, "Garbage in, garbage out." What you fill yourself with is what will come out of you. It has to. You can't give what you don't have and you can only give what you do have. Whatever you fill yourself with... that's what you have to give. So look to the Rock. Look in the mirror with an open face (or an open mind). Forget about the lies the world has told you and embrace the ultimate truth of the universe--that God is love and He loves you. That you are His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. Embrace the truth of your true identity. And be changed--from GLORY to glory--by seeing... Him. In you. If you're looking in the mirror you're seeing what you really look like. Who you really are. And, just as when God looks at He sees Jesus, and when God looks at Jesus He sees you, in the same way when YOU look at you, you can see Jesus. When you look at the people you come into contact with you can see Jesus. You don't have to judge by appearance. You can look properly--cross-eyed, through the lens of the finished work of the cross--and you can see people (and places, and things) for what they really are!