In the divine Mirror, the Bible, we may behold ourselves or we may behold Christ.
It is well to use it first to behold ourselves and see the ruin sin has brought. But let us not stop here. Let a man look into a mirror and find the sun in it and the glory will be reflected in his face. And so it is with the Word. When we see ourselves in it we must necessarily be disappointed, but when we look for Him in the Word and find Him there, His glory casts its reflection upon us!
What need have we then to hide our faces? If David could say, βThey looked unto Him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamedβ (Psa. 34:5), how much more should this be said of us! We know, or should know, more of Him than those of Davidβs day, and those Scriptures specially addressed to us send us forth, not to proclaim Godβs righteous demands, but to proclaim Christ, the righteous One, who met these demands at Calvary and offers justification and life to all.
And as, in our study of the Scriptures (Acts 17:11; II Tim. 2:15), we turn from the shame of man to the glory of Christ; as we behold Him and see all we have and are in Him, we become constantly more like Him, βchanged into the same image from glory to gloryβ (II Cor. 3:18). source
