I was visiting the Santa Cruz Museum of Art some time ago and was amazed at a hanging mobile of mirrored images. The light reflected those images in different directions every few seconds. You could try to see your own face, and if you did, that only lasted for a few seconds before the wind drifted the mirror into another direction, when some other image caught your eye.
A glimpse of yourself, and then its gone.
Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.- Paul, the Apostle, to the Corinthians.
Identity. That’s what a mirrored image shows us.
Paul’s statement “All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.” releases us from the burden of having to “know ones self” and allows God-time to allow us to become who/what God wants us to be.
There is a huge burden on culture to define itself,.. always different from the previous generation. Nearly in every graduation speech you hear these words,.. “We’re gonna go out there and ‘change the world'” …. how many ever really did?
It’s sort of funny that you are never asked the question right after graduation from high school,.. ” what difference do you want to make?”… or “how are you going to change the world?”.. but rather what are you going to “do’?.. when the statement ” we’re gonna change the world” is the only real challenge!!
However as soon as we “grow-up” we are asked constantly, “what do you do?” as if our state of “doing” is the only thing that matters…
The way I see it, asking about the “doing” of others, seems to only validate the one who is “doing” the most, or best. We sublimely fall into a life time of doing, cuz it seems thats all that matters.
Jesus never taught that we were to “do”, but rather that we should “be about”.. the love of our enemy, the love of our neighbor, to love the sinners( not the sin) and to love God. Matthew 22:37-39NIV
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.
A reflecting image of God looks like love.
We do have to “do” love to pull this off.
Lets reflect more!
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