Treasure Table | A Peek in the Mirror

👣 Today’s Noticing Invitation

👣 Today’s Noticing Invitation

This morning, I caught a peek in the mirror.

I realized I had been asking the wrong question.

For years, I quietly believed that loving others meant becoming smaller.

So I did.

I considered others more important than myself.

I became quieter.

More accommodating.

I disappeared so gradually that I hardly noticed it happening.

I thought that was loving others.

Then one day, the King gently adjusted my lens.

What if I had been reading those verses through an Opposite World lens?

Perhaps loving myself was never about making much of myself.

Perhaps it begins by receiving the Father’s love for the image bearer I see in the mirror.

Because that image bearer belongs to Him.

Then I realized something else.

I can only love the image bearers in my world by first receiving the Father’s love for the image bearer I see in the mirror.

From that overflow, His love naturally reaches the people He entrusts to my path.

Perhaps we mirror the King by increasingly receiving His love until our lives become cleaner mirrors, reflecting His love to the image bearers He places in our path.

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The next time you catch a peek in the mirror…

Will you see someone who needs to earn more love…

Or an image bearer learning to receive the Father’s love more deeply, so that His love naturally overflows to the people around them?

These verses are behind Today’s Noticing:

• Genesis 1:27 We are created in His image.

• Genesis 2:7 The King personally formed and breathed life into Adam.

• Matthew 22:37-38 Love your neighbor as yourself.

• Philippians 2:3-4 Humility is not self-erasure.

• 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Your life belongs to the King.

• Ephesians 2:10 We are His workmanship.

• 2 Corinthians 3:18 As we behold Him…

• 1 John 4:19 We love because…

• Psalm 139:14 — Fearfully and wonderfully made.