When I got married, I registered for a mirror for my bathroom. It’s a round one you hang on the wall and one side is a magnifying mirror (see picture to right). In other words, one side of the mirror shows all my flaws. Clearly. I can easily spend a very long time in front of the mirror. Poking, plucking, prodding. And I mean, come on, adult acne is the worst. The crazy thing is when I step away from the tiny, magnifying mirror, those flaws I saw oh so clearly just disappear. They fade away and the zit I was convinced was the size of Texas is barely noticeable.
Now, I realize this idea could go in a million different directions, but this is where it hit me today. I spend my life looking at things in the tiny, magnifying mirror. Each idea or project gets scrutinized and analyzed and every problem becomes Mt. Everest. And then I tell someone else my HUGE problem and they quip, “Oh, I know someone who can do that!” REALLY?! I just spent an entire day trying to figure out how to make X work and in one sentence, you have a solution.
When I look at things through my eyes, it is like looking in the magnifying mirror. Each problem or hurdle is HUGE. It seems impossible. But when I step back and look at things through the eyes of Jesus, I see small hills and am reminded “with God all things are possible (Matt 19:26)“and “Greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world(I John 4:4).” As I continue to embark on a scary journey into the unknowns of starting ministries and building relationships, I am reminding myself the mirror is not the voice I should be listening to and the mountains are simply ways for me to rely greater on God and less on my feeble skills. Stay tuned for the exciting days ahead!
