Listening to The Used and Thinking About Lions

Have you ever seen the movie called the Truman show?  It stars Jim Carrey, and I can honestly say that I laughed through out most of the movie.  There is one specific scene that I recall from time to time.  While sitting in the bathroom Truman, Jim Carrey’s character, has drawn on the mirror with what I believe was shaving cream. He has made the reflection in the mirror appear to be an astronaut.

Travel down this road with me for a moment. What if there was a real life that existed in the reflection?  What if that person in the reflection had a world, reality, and life just as real as mine and yours.  One could make the argument that the “other side” of the mirror could very well be an astronaut.  We would have no way to know that that other life was faking it. The helmet was there; all the surroundings appeared to fit the role.  However, we know that the real person on “our side” of the mirror was just a poor imitation of a space explorer.  We could have reached out and drawn anything on that mirror, and the astronaut would be no more. 

Let’s play a game.  (Imagine that said in the creepy voice from the movie Saw.) I want you to go into the kitchen grab a cup of water, head to the bathroom, clean off the mirror, grab some shaving cream, and then do your best to make the “other side” of you a lion.  I found it helpful for me to stay as still as possible and to start with the mane.  If you need drawing tips you can come over to my house and watch “Simba” AKA “The Lion King” (Jordan prefers the first title.)  You can also draw some other animals, trees, or maybe a sunset.  You can draw anything that will add to your alternate self becoming a lion. 

Are you happy with the lion on the other side of a mirror?  If someone were to look at the reflection that was coming from the glass of the mirror would they know you were a lion?  Do you think they would call you a lion?  Whenever you leave the mirror will people still know that your goal is to look like a lion?  Nope, why is that?  The reason is because all of the evidence of you wanting to be a lion is left on the mirror.  That mirror holds all of your works, efforts, and time trying to achieve your goal. 

Your reflection will never change until you change what you look like personally.  Manipulation of the mirror itself was the thing that was making you look like a lion.  When we as Christ followers want to look like Christ we need to quit changing the environment around, and we need to start focusing on changing ourselves to look like Christ.  Once Christ does the changing in our hearts, lives, and “appearance”, that is when our reflection will truly change.