Most of us at one time or another have cleaned a window or a mirror. I've cleaned several rather dirty ones.... Streaked and gobs of mud on them, you can't hardly even tell they're there. Or maybe the screen is full of grime and dead bugs, and its just ugly to look at. Its a pain to clean, but how rewarding when it is clear and beautiful again!
Our lives are like windows. The world is on one side, and Jesus Christ, the Sun, is on the other. God looks down on us and Jesus covers our sin. Like looking from the outside at a window on a sunny day, you can't really see the window itself, you can only see the sun reflecting it.
But it works both ways. The world is on the other side of the window. If it is clean, the sun comes through, and shines on whatever is inside.
However, if our lives are dirty, and sin is left unconfessed, it streaks and dirties the window like someone throwing mud on it. Now, you can see the window from the outside even when the sun is shining, because the mud brings it out. It draws attention to the glass instead of the sun. And its not so clear or bright, shining through to the inside because of the dirt that is blocking out the sun.
What kind of a window are you? Are you clean and pure and beautiful, reflecting the Sun and letting it shine through to a lost and dark world that needs it desperately? Or is there mud and dirt and dead bugs that are making it hard to see the Sun through you?
God is the Master at window cleaning, and only He can take away the sin in someone's life. Even better, when our lives are scarred like cracks in a window, only He can fix them so that we don't shatter.
Shine on and let your life be a reflection of the Son!
Make today count!
Always,
~ Amanda ♥
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