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Sabbath, January 4, 2025
Almost a year ago, while I was at our local Adventist high school for a board meeting, I saw something that made me grin. As I emerged from a recently-renovated restroom, I noticed this thin mirror propped on a little stool.
This was a high school, after all. In the nearby grade school, this item would have been a less essential accessory, at least in the boys’ bathroom. At that age, I myself would have totally ignored any mirror in the vicinity as I dashed out to — or back in from — recess.
The Bible talks about a very important mirror:
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does. (James 1:22 – 25 NIV)
Did you get the point? God’s law is a mirror. Check out the illustration at the link below – it’s of a young man studying himself in a reflective version of the Ten Commandments. Then scroll down through Bible verses which tell what else this law is and why it’s so important.