6-July-2022_the looking glass
[These thoughts were given to me: ] 
Does the image of a mirror conform to our facial changes? 
The Word is the mirror that changes our face to conform to the face in the mirror—the face of Jesus, the Word of God, who is reflecting God’s image and showing it to us.
If, when we read the Word we are simply seeing ourselves, then we’ll go away unchanged; if we just keep our own thoughts and ways of being; or interpret things according our own minds; then we aren’t going to change and be more like Jesus. 
And what shows that we have been changed from our look into the looking glass of God’s Word, Jesus Christ, is by our actions afterwards; if we do what Jesus said.

2CO.3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
2CO.3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2CO.3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.

JAM.1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
JAM.1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
JAM.1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
JAM.1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.