Mirrors, Silver, and Windows

 

So again I’m a day late but I’m here writing so that’s at least something. So I read from 2 Corinthians 3 and verse 18 talks about mirrors, which also made me think of silver and windows.

Silver is a great illustration because it needs polishing because it tarnishes and becomes dull even blackish in color. Silver left alone will tarnish and needs to be polished regularly to maintain it's beautiful shine. I need to keep work on myself and not just be lazy and do what I want to do. It's not healthy and it's for sure not very pretty.

 And of course windows, windows are great!!! They allow light to shine through and brighten the room you’re in. But they don’t work so well when they’re covered in crap. We go through life accumulating crap on our window so much that we can’t get it all off on our own. When we accept Jesus’ sacrifice for He gives us a gift in the Holy Spirit. He becomes our new spirit and works to clean up our window. Little by little light comes in and the beauty can be seen looking in and looking out from the window. Our job is to not add more crap to the window with God’s help and to allow the Holy Spirit to clean the window so that God’s beauty can shine through. (And yes I know that it's a doorway but we can all pretend that it's a window because the picture is too pretty to pass up!!!)