Healer: A 7-Day Devotional With Casting CrownsSample

We fool ourselves when we are hearers of the Word but not doers of the Word. We’re like somebody who wakes up in the morning, looks at our face in the mirror, and thinks, “That’s not me,” and walks away without changing anything. I think the next thing that will get canceled in this culture is the mirror, because you can’t fix it. It has no filters. It’s just reality. Pretty soon someone will invent filters for our mirrors because so many people like to be hearers and not doers. That’s another phrase for being a poser.

I don’t want to look in the mirror in the morning. I’ve memorized where it is, and I know what it’s going to show, so I ignore it as I walk past it to the shower. I’m going to the shower first because I don’t like anybody, not even myself, before a shower. That’s where I begin to love the Lord again, in the shower, just slowly.

Have you ever had a part of your life where you didn’t want to walk up to the mirror of Scripture as described in James? God’s Word has no filters, which is exactly why it must be our counsel. What’s true about me is what God says about me, good or bad. I have to let God tell me who I am and remind me who he is, and Satan will fight with everything he has to prevent those moments.

I know the enemy has wrested me away from God’s Word, if I go to other places for my counsel. If my counsel is not from God, it’s from wickedness. When I’m walking in the counsel of the wicked, in short order I will be standing in the way of sinners because I soon will live in such a way that it turns people off to Jesus. Inevitably, I wind up sitting in the seat of scoffers because I don’t want to hear the truth anymore.

The mirror can be painful, but it is necessary. The more we look into the mirror of God’s Word, over time, the more we’ll see the reflection of Jesus.