Reflection: A reflection is the return of light or sound waves from a surface.

God: Perfect Image, Christ: Perfect Reflection, Us: Imperfect Refraction.

Refraction: The action of distorting an image by viewing through a medium.

Deuteronomy 32:4
“The Rock–his work is perfect; all his ways are just. A faithful God, without bias, he is righteous and true”

1 Peter 1:16
“Be holy, because I am holy”

Matthew 5:48
“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Psalm 5:4
“For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with you.”

Hebrews 10:14
“For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified”

Acts 1:9-11:9
“After He had said this, he was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight. ¹⁰ While He was going, they were gazing into heaven, and suddenly two men in white clothes stood by them. ¹¹ They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven”

Matthew 20:20-23
²⁰ Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached him with her sons. She knelt down to ask him for something. ²¹ “What do you want?” he asked her. “Promise,” she said to him, “that these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right and the other on your left, in your kingdom.” ²² Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” “We are able,” they said to him. ²³ He told them, “You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right and left is not mine to give; instead, it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Matthew 26:39
“Going a little farther, he fell face down and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves… grace without discipleship, grace without the cross.”

What are the cracks in your mirror that are distorting the image of God in your life?