"Mirror, mirror on the wall... who is the fairest of them all?"
This famous line gets one thing wrong as to the question that most people ask mirrors. We do not ask if they are the fairest, but if we are fair at all. Are we beautiful in any way?
Genesis 1:27 states that "God created human beings in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Later, Psalm 139:13 says:
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully
The truth is that all humans are created in the image. Even if the image is so faint that it is nearly unrecognizable, it still reflect value and beauty in the slightest hint. Each person contain a unique expression of the value of beauty of Christ himself. So the mirror in our heads is not always honest in its ruthless appraisal of self-worth. It sees the flaws, whereas even the greatest flaws cannot hide the indisguisable beauty of God found in each of us.
Often we look in the mirror and wonder if we are normal. We are not. We are a one of a kind masterpiece made in the image of God, but that is a good thing. Who would want to be exactly the same as everyone else... ie."normal"
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