Fitting Room Mirror

I remember countless shopping trips with my mom when I was younger. We would walk into the mall ready to catch some sales lol. After picking up a few items we would head to a fitting room to try them on. Now I don’t know if this is strange to some people, but me and my mom would share a fitting room (we still do to this day lol). But one of the things that stick out in my memory is my mom’s “fitting process”. She would put the item on, look in the mirror, and without fail say “I hate how these fitting room mirrors make me look”. So even though I didn't fully understand it, I adopted that belief.

Are we subconsciously walking around with mental and spiritual “fitting room mirrors”?

Let’s biblically break this down…

“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look at his appearance or his stature, because I have rejected him. Man does not see what the Lord sees, for man sees what is visible, but the Lord sees the heart.’ “

Samuel 16:7 (HCSB)

During the selection to find who God had chosen to be king, Samuel was looking at outward appearances. David was the “runt” of the family but God chose him because of what was in his heart.

God judges people differently than humans do. We look at the physical appearance; God looks into the heart.

Even after being chosen, David was brought to Saul to play his harp when Saul felt down. David eventually became Saul’s right hand man. Everyone’s view of David (including David) was probably that he was born to be the sidekick.

But God saw more …

To the human eye (or fitting room mirror) David was brought to the kingdom only to serve.

But God saw more…

The reflections in our fitting room mirrors are far harsher than God’s view of us. What we see as an unimportant move (David playing the harp; that job position that we feel we’re overqualified for) God sees as the set up for the come up.

God placed David exactly where He needed him to be in order to fulfill his destiny.

So I’m challenging us all to shatter those fitting room mirror mentalities. Let’s step into the reality of God’s perfect image of us. The lighting is way better over there anyway!

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