Broken Mirrors

The problem is that our view of ourselves and our sense of worth are often determined by the input and opinions of others. We have lived our lives and defined who we are chained and attached to prison bars because we have accepted what broken mirrors have said about us.

Often times the people that we have listened to is looking through shaded glasses and defective lenses, their vision is distorted and blurred. Their input and opinions puts us in chains and we now become associated with bondage. We end up looking into broken mirrors and having our hopes become shattered dreams, we draw false conclusions about ourselves. We must realize that how we see our lives are not really seen through broken mirrors but by broken minds.

I throw no stones when I publish or post my blogs, because in some way we are all broken, we have all looked into broken mirrors and have had our hopes and dreams shattered. There are many reasons for us all to have been broken, past abuse, addictions, damaged relationships, wounded spirits and broken hearts, and just plain bitterness and anger. In my own broken mirror, the vivid reflection I see looking back at me is the reflection of loss, failure, and heartbreak, but I also see hope and happiness, faith and redemption.

When we look at our lives through what we see as broken mirrors we see cracks and shards, disfigured images, afraid to touch it because we fear the damages that the sharp edges may do to our skin that has already been maimed and bruised, cut and scarred.

No matter how we think about trying to salvage what’s left of the shared pieces we fail, we are unable to repair what’s been broken, no amount of self-applied glue can hold together the edges, there are going to be missing pieces and pieces that are mis-fitted. We must come to realize that there is only one who can repair and replace the cracks in our mirrors.  When we see our lives in the broken glass of our mirrors we see it as worthless, un-useable, un-repairable and we are ready to toss our life into the garbage. Oh but you see when God looks at our broken mirrors He sees worth and opportunity, he sees what his perfect love can perfect in us. He sees our pain that his perfect healing can replace.

He is the only one that can replace the broken pieces with his infallible love. And when he gets through mending and repairing and replacing it is then that we can take that step up to that mirror and finally realize the greatness of an omniscient and omnipotent God and look at ourselves through the lenses of a magnificent God. Suddenly our reflections are no longer distorted and blurred we see no cracked lines and images; we see only beauty, healing, and hope. We see ourselves as amazing created by an amazing God who made us in his image, not the cracked images that others want us to see. You see God gathered up the pieces of our broken mirrors no matter how deep they cut into his flesh he never gave up, he never complained about the blood that dripped from his brokenness, to repair our brokenness. His shed blood covered our broken glass, shard by shard and cutting edge by edge. He brought life to those broken pieces, they began to fit together bound by his blood and his amazing love. We no longer have to get tired of looking at a broken reflection in a cracked mirror. So when someone comes along with their shaded and blurred lenses, and tries to remind us of our broken mirrors, let’s just reflect on his word Psalm 34:18 ~ The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Although others may want us to continue to look into cracked and distorted mirrors, our vision is greater than theirs, our repaired and replaced mirrors reflect who we are and whose we are, because He tells us in his word; Matthew 5:2-12  ~And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Love you all to Life, until next time be Blessed!!! ~~Indigokiss~~