My Mirror

A few years ago, I wanted to go into a deeper walk with the Lord. I had never even known it was possible until a few things took place in my life. Until that point, God was just Someone who was kind of real and ‘way out there’ somewhere. You know, ‘out there’

When we ask Him to take us into the deeps with Him, He requires of us. He requires our very lives. He requires that we give up all our rights to ourselves. We can hold on to nothing. Not even a tiny bit. In us there is no good thing. If there was any good thing, then Jesus would not have had to come to be crucified in our place. We need to see ourselves as God sees us outside of Jesus in our unsurrendered state – in our humanness. The only reason we can stand before Him at all, is because of Jesus.

I once asked the Lord to show me, me, as He sees me – what is still living in me, where I am holding on to my life, even though I thought I had given it all to Him. What He showed me was horrific to face. But as I mentioned in my “Dying to self and suffering go hand-in-hand” post, over at The Faith Defenders Forum, it is what we do when being faced with the next wedge of our life that He requires from us, that is all important.

There has to be a breaking, a crushing, a letting go, so that we can be brought to fulfilment in Him in our lives. We cannot become poured out wine for Him if the grape is still whole. Wine is made from crushed grapes…. Are we prepared to be crushed by Him, to be made poured out wine for others?

I really pray that you will ask Him to show you, you….
In the love of Jesus
Steph

My Mirror

Tearing and breaking inside with no sound
Limping, crawling, lying face down
Look into My mirror
If you dare
And let Me show you
what I see there

Stiff-necked and proud – too haughty for Me
Dark hidden agendas and thoughts flowing free
Egocentric and selfish, arrogant and callous
Self-driven, self-serving, unyielding and jealous

Look into My mirror
If you dare
And let Me show you
what I see there

Short-tempered and angry, hard-done by, unrelenting
Sharp tongued and self-righteous, harsh, unrepenting
Cruel and unkind, thoughtless and unfeeling
All this and much more, in your heart I am seeing

Look into My mirror
If you dare
And let Me show you
what I see there

My mirror never lies, there’s no false reflection
Through the Cross, I’ve reached out and don’t want you rejection
My Son’s life for yours, no greater love than this
If you just want Me for ‘things’, then you’ll be asking amiss.

Now, look into My mirror
If you dare
But first let Me show you
what I want to see there

Love, Peace, patience, Self-control and Faithfulness
Kindness, Joy, Goodness and of course, Gentleness
If you dare to look in My mirror this day
Then know through My son, Jesus, you can live My way
I ask for your life, your heart and your soul
To be given up fully, to be given in whole
Nothing witheld from Me, not now, not ever
And to live in Me now, and always, and forever

So,
What will it be?

Are you prepared to look into My mirror this day
And let Me clean out all this rot and decay
Death and destruction were all washed away
Long ago on a hill,
called Calvary.

Tearing and breaking inside with no sound
Limping, crawling, lying face down
Look into My mirror
With Me, you can dare
And let Me help you see
what I see there