Self

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven”
Matt 5:3
“Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”
The Queen from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”



Would we be better off as Christians if we eliminated mirrors? Are they just symbols of all of the time that we spend focusing on ourselves? God made us with eyes that looked outward in order that we can see others. He did not create us with eyes that had the ability to look inward at ourselves. It is in looking into mirrors that we become unhappy with ourselves. We weigh too much, we have acne, we have bad hair days, we are too tall or we are too short. Mirrors probably allow us to spend too much time making ourselves unhappy and, more importantly, that that they cause us to focus our time and our energy on ourselves. This is not the Christian life, we are to focus on others, not self. We have wrecked our priorities. I don’t remember any scriptural reference where Christ talks about his appearance, where he talks about his physical self. In our consumer society we focus on self and self-worth and self improvement and self gratification. Once we have eliminated mirrors, we should tackle the word “self” itself.