Last evening, my children were watching a historical cartoon. In the movie, someone looked into a shiny helmet and saw their eyes magnified. This image startled the character. What they saw was distorted due to the convex shape of the mirror.
How often do we find ourselves looking into a convex image? We even put that looking glass on our heads and wear it like a helmet (our daily thinking about ourselves). Every time we take it off to check our image, we see that distortion looking back at us. We have allowed the convex nature of the mirror to determine our perception of ourselves. According to the physics classroom, the focal point is in direct correlation to the distance of the image from the mirror. Anyone else out there feeling conviction regarding our human nature and thought patterns?
This spoke volumes to me. God did not intend for us to see distortion of what he created. A convex mirror is described as creating a "bulging image." The closer we look to the convex mirror, the more distorted the image. Whenever we hand the helmet to him, then we can start fresh and new. We can walk to the water's edge (His love for us) and see a crystal clear reflection of ourselves. Sometimes this requires waiting at the water's edge, letting the ripples of life settle out of what we are viewing.
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." (Gen. 1:27 KJV)
