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The greatest characteristic a Christian can exhibit is this completely unveiled
openness before God, which allows that person’s life to become a mirror for
others. When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we
become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of
the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own
character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It
is almost always something good that will stain it— something good, but not what
is best.
The most important rule for us is to concentrate on keeping our lives open to
God. Let everything else including work, clothes, and food be set aside. The
busyness of things obscures our concentration on God. We must maintain a
position of beholding Him, keeping our lives completely spiritual through and
through. Let other things come and go as they will; let other people criticize
us as they will; but never allow anything to obscure the life that “is hidden
with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3). Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the
relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must
guard against it. The most difficult lesson of the Christian life is learning
how to continue “beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord . . . .”
"We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a
mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image . . ."
- 2 Corinthians 3:18
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