When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
Most people see their past, their flaws, their failures. They see someone who’s trying to follow God but still feels like they’re falling short.
But what if I told you that God has a mirror too (The Bible), and when you look into it, you don’t see who you used to be, you see who you’ve become in Christ. This is the legal aspect of redemption.
You don’t see sin, you see righteousness.
You don’t see weakness, you see power. You don’t see distance, you see union.
The moment you accepted Jesus, your identity changed.
And when you truly look at Jesus, not just as your Savior, but as your reflection, you’ll stop striving to become someone and start living as who you already are.
What does it mean to see yourself in God’s mirror, how looking at Jesus reveals your true identity, and how this simple revelation can completely transform how you think, pray, and live.
Because until you see yourself the way heaven sees you, you’ll live beneath your spiritual rights.
But once you start seeing who you are in Christ, everything changes.
We must get the revelation of who we legally are in Christ in our spirit, so that our identity in “the realm of the spirt” begins to affect how we live here in “the realm of the earth”.
2 Corinthians 3: 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord-NKFV.
2 Corinthians 3: 18 And we all removing the veil of our soul (our own ability)through the eyes of our spirit see reflected a mirror “of our spirit, the divine nature and abilities” of the Lord are continually being changed from an earthly form into a supernatural form into the same person “statue-representation” throughthe transference of divine attributes motion into more divine attributes “exactly as through” the transference of Holy Spirit “authority-controller”-LJT.
The Holy Spirit is our partner who takes the provision of Jesus through the finished work of his cross and imparts it to us through our contact or joining ourselves to him as our Lord.
Jesus or Christ, the DNA of YHVH, the Living Word, was conceived in our spirit which is like a womb, this see or living word grows in our spirit, when we learn how to keep our heart(soul) pure. The seed in our spirit can grow up into the full stature of Jesus Christ, as our soul is being transformed, living by another life form, the life of God flowing through our spirit into it.
The word stature means- the level of respect, reputation, or status attained by Jesus Christ.
So, our spirit is literally the spirit of Christ in us. When our spirit is born again it is quickened into the spirit of Christ but is just like a little baby the same as in the natural.
When we are baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, the Holy Spirit now lives in our body, so that we have two spirits in us now.
We must literally consciously join our spirit to the Holy Spirit where it is glued together as we maintain this conscious contact, for it to become one spirit with the Lord. And as we do this we are partnering with the Holy Spirit as we appropriate what He imparts and transformation occurs in the area of our soul, and our spirit grows, and the soul no longer hinders that growth, because it is being renewed or coming into agreement with our spirit, we are becoming a whole person and not two people. The spirit desiring one thing and the flesh desiring another.
The Trinity is one being. When it talks of “Lord” that word in some contexts of Scripture can be translated “the Holy Spirit” and not “Jesus”. The word Lord can be interchanged between Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
Did you catch that?
Paul says when you behold Jesus in the Bible, you’re not actually looking into a religious telescope, not a stained-glass portrait, but a mirror.
That means what you’re seeing in Him, you’re also seeing in yourself.
Not because of your performance, because of your legal position in Christ.
You are in Christ and He is in you and you are reflecting Him.
And the more you look at Him, the more you become like Him.
Now, this is not self-help. This is not ego. This is not about looking within and finding some vague inner power.
This is about identity in Christ, rooted in the finished work of the cross.
When you accepted Jesus as your Lord and savior, your old self died. Your spirit was recreated.
You were given the opportunity to join your spirit to the Lord and became one spirit with Him- 1 Corinthians 6: 17( in the literal Greek it say he who is continually joining to the lord is one spirit, This is a fixed focus on the Holy Spirit, where it is no longer you who live, but Christ living through you-Galatians 2:20.
So, when God sees you, He sees Jesus. And when you look into the Word, you’re supposed to see the same thing.
The Bible’s not just a book of commandments, it’s a mirror.
And every time you read it, God is trying to show you what you now look like in the Spirit.
But here’s the problem.
Most Christians read the Bible through the lens of who they used to be, not who they are.
They read it and say, “That’s beautiful, but it doesn’t feel like me”.
And that disconnect creates confusion.
They know what the Bible says, but they don’t see it in their lives.
So, they assume it’s just poetic or symbolic or something reserved for the super spiritual.
The New Testament is a revelation of the believer’s legal rights. And when you read it correctly, you’re not just reading about Jesus, you’re reading about you in Jesus.
Let’s take an example.
When the Bible says, As He is, so are we in this world- 1 John 4:17. That’s not exaggeration, that’s not metaphor, that’s reality.
In your spirit right now, you are righteous, holy, loved, accepted, powerful, and filled with the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead.
But if you don’t look in the mirror long enough, you’ll forget, and revert back to your old self with all of its problems.
James 1: 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
They forget what they look like, in the natural realm.
This means your spiritual memory is tied to your spiritual reflection. If you don’t keep looking at who you are in Christ, you’ll go back to acting like the old you, the one that died.
All the areas of their natural life that need to be transformed, so that they can be a reflection of Jesus Christ and make a difference in this world-people will be drawn to the Christ in you and want what you have got.
Now I am not talking about religious people, no one wants what they got, and I am appropriating the long- suffering of the Lord toward them.
Their belief systems are all messed up and they are teaching a bunch of lies, and they are misrepresenting a God who is love and has already reconciled all the people in the world to himself, and he has no enmity in his heart towards them.
Now I am talking about the natural man, the enmity is in their mind where they feel separated, all they need is to have their spirit awakened, because it is asleep.
They need to see the Love of God manifested in us towards them, that is why I develop relationships with people so that they can get to know me, and when God opens the door, I lead them to Jesus and they get born again, where their spirit gets born again and they naturally want to do what their awakened spirit desires. Then all I have to do is help them get free from the flesh that is controlling them, because that is now their desire.
Most people believe in God and are basically good people, as far as natural goodness is concerned, even go to some king of church, but they have never been born from above.
The written word is the mirror of the recreated (born again) spirit.
When we look into it and see what we are in Christ, then we act accordingly.
That’s the secret.
Transformation doesn’t come from trying harder. It comes from looking longer.
You become what you behold.
And when your eyes are fixed on Jesus, not just as your Savior, but as your reflection, you start thinking like Him, speaking like Him, loving like Him, walking in power like Him, not because you’re copying Him, but because you’re connected to Him.
So how do you live this out?
How do you actually see yourself in Christ every day?
It starts by looking in the right mirror.
Most people look in the mirror of the world. They see their job, their past, their struggles, their failures. or they look in the mirror of their feelings. How they feel that day becomes their identity.
But the only mirror that tells the truth about who you really are is the Word of God.
The Word shows you what your spirit looks like now that Jesus lives in you.
And that’s why reading the Bible is not about checking a box on how good you are doing.
It’s about seeing your reflection.
When you read, you are more than a conqueror, don’t just quote it. See it. Picture it. Believe it. That’s you.
When you read, you are the righteousness of God in Christ, don’t shrug it off.
That’s the mirror talking.
When you read, the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, let that word hit you, let it sink into your spirit. That’s not hype.
That’s your new normal.
That’s God’s mirror reflecting back your new nature.
Now let’s talk about Jesus, because when we look at Him, we’re not just looking at God, we’re looking at God’s will for man.
Jesus is the prototype of the new creation. He’s the blueprint.
He shows us what life looks like when a person is filled with the Spirit and completely surrendered to the Father.
That’s why the Gospels are not just stories to admire, they’re models too appropriate.
When Jesus healed the sick, it wasn’t just to prove He was divine.
It was to show what Spirit-filled humans could do.
When He walked in peace, when He forgave quickly, when He prayed boldly, that’s the mirror.
That’s what you now have access to because He lives in you.
The more you look at Jesus, not just as your example, but as your reflection, your life rises to match that image.
You stop saying, I’m just a sinner, and start saying, I’m a son.
You stop saying I’m weak and start saying His strength is made perfect in me.
You stop begging God to come near and you start enjoying the fact that He already lives inside you.
This is what it means to walk in Christ, walk in the spirit, not trying to become, but being who you already are through Him.
And I want to warn you, religion hates this.
Religion is comfortable with effort, with performance, with guilt, but grace introduces a mirror that says you are who He says you are, whether you feel like it or not.
And that kind of truth threatens systems built on shame.
But once you’ve looked into God’s mirror, you can’t go back to spiritual amnesia.
You’ve seen yourself in Christ and nothing else will satisfy.
So, here’s what I want you to do today.
Start your morning by looking in the right mirror.
Open the word, not to study, but to see.
Find verses that describe your identity in Christ and read them slowly.
Speak them out loud.
Let your mind catch up with your spirit.
And every time you’re tempted to look at your old reflection, remind yourself that person is dead.
I’ve been raised with Christ.
And when I look at him, I’m looking at me because I’m in him and he’s in me.