It welcomed me into its beauty, where I could drink deeply and soak it all up, like an infinite wellspring when it was just a view suspended in time, at least temporarily, or until the sunset.
The still waters were a mirror reflection of the sky today.
I look at the cloud’s reflection upon the still waters and biblical revelation poured into my heart.
THE WORD OF GOD IS A MIRROR.
Still, waters in Hebrew means-
Me menuchot, literally “waters of rest” and “waters of reflection”.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
I had a large mirror 🪞in my office to reflect light and visually open the space. It also revealed much to me as I would often be at my desk. Some individuals would come into the office, some would pass by it unnoticed, and others would glance at it, maybe fix their hair, or say something like (I look terrible )
Others looked at themselves, admiring their reflection and sometimes moving away from it only to return for a second look. No comment is needed. Vanity speaks without a sound.
Mirrors reflect likeness. We use a mirror to approve of our appearance, make corrections, or reflect light.
In representing the Word of God, a mirror can show us how to improve our spiritual appearance.
A healthy person looks in the mirror to do something, not just to admire the image. Even so, a healthy Christian looks into God’s Word to help reflect the right image, not just to store facts that will not be used.
To take comfort in the fact you have heard God’s word when you haven’t done it (a doer) is to deceive yourself.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 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, for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
The first word for “look” (v. 23) in Greek means “to observe fully.” People who hear do not always absorb.
The doer of the word “looks intently” (v. 25), which means to “lean over” and “peer within it; in the Greek language, the word for looks into speaks of a penetrating examination so that a person would even draw closer or bend over looking into the image of the water or into the mirror to get a better look.
God’s Word is like a mirror. We use mirrors to evaluate ourselves.
What is a mirror good for?
A mirror shows what we can’t see without it. Front view, side view, back view. It shows if your hair is a mess. Suppose food is in between your teeth and food on your face.
We hide from a mirror not to see the shame of the damage from the night before.
What good is a mirror if we don’t do anything about what we see? God says a mirror reflects what we’re like on the outside, and God’s Word reflects what we’re like on the inside.
Clouds
The scripture speaks of ☁️ hundreds of times.
The sky seems to rest upon the sea at the horizon
You set its boundaries
You who rides upon the clouds
Who walks on the wings of the wind
Psalm 104:3
The Old Testament speaks of the clouds as the symbol of God’s presence and care over His people, so the “bow in the clouds” (Genesis 9:13) is a sign of God’s covenant protection.
Clouds continue to play significant roles,
in the revelation to Moses at Sinai in Exodus 24, when God’s glory, Shekinah in Hebrew, the immanent presence of God within creation, comes as a cloud and rests on the Mount for six days
In Exodus 16:10, we learn that the “glory” of the Lord was manifested in a cloud.
Acts 1:9
9 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
The cloud that received Jesus is the cloud of glory (called the Shekinah), which is the presence of God in the Old and New Testaments.
“Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord” (1 Thess. 4:17).
Mark 13:26
26 “Then people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory [Dan. 7:13].
