An Old Antique Mirror...

I have spent some time the last several days working on some new worship music for church. There is so much music on the radio now, that sometimes, it all starts to sound the same, words and tune. Sometimes, however, there's that song you come across, and it makes you go hmmm.... This is one of those songs...

This song speaks to me so much. Here's the words:

I see shattered, You see whole

I see broken, but You see beautiful

And You're helping me to believe

You're restoring me piece by piece

There's nothing too dirty that you can't make worthy

You wash me in mercy, I am clean

There's nothing too dirty that you can't make worthy

You wash me in mercy, I am clean

What was dead now lives again

My heart's beating, beating inside my chest

Oh, I'm coming alive with joy and destiny

'Cause You're restoring me piece by piece

Washed in the blood of Your sacrifice

Your blood flowed red and made me white

My dirty rags are purified, I am clean

For much of my life, I have felt that I wasn't enough...smart enough, pretty enough, perfect enough, organized enough, social enough, creative enough, good enough...sometimes even "just" enough. Since I turned 40, I have been working through much of that, to be okay with who I am because of "Whose" I am. I am "enough" because He is enough for me.

I think of it kind of like an old mirror.  With an old, clouded, antique mirror, there is often a haze that prevents us from seeing the actual look of what is reflected in the mirror. It's cloudy, sometimes even full of black spots. They prevent us from seeing the true beauty of it. It's a very extensive and expensive process to restore it to it's original beauty. It's only worthwhile when the mirror is valuable and the one doing it is an expert.

It's much like that with us, too. Sin causes those black, hazy spots to form and to cover over who He made us to be. We can't see anything except our failures, our weaknesses, our ugliness. But HE was willing to pay the price for us to be restored and HE has the power to make us like new. He makes us clean. The view through the newly restored "mirror"is now a reflection of the One who put the time and energy into restoring it.

Even though I make mistakes - LOTS of them - He takes me as I am and cleans me up. I see myself through the view of an old, clouded mirror when I look through my own eyes. I'm never enough on my own. But He sees me as I am becoming, through the blood of His sacrifice on the cross - new, whole, restored, useful to Him. When I allow Him to restore me as He originally intended me to be, I begin to see things differently. The challenge is to see myself more and more through His eyes, so I can continue to become more like Christ. So I can draw people to Him. So I can bring more glory and honor to His Name. So that He is lifted up and lives are changed. So that I can REALLY live this life for Him and in Him. What a thought...!

It will probably be working its way in to the music soon...! 😏