It's easy to care too much about the image you present to the world, but Nancy DeMoss

Walglemouth says the so-called mirrors we look to have nothing to offer.

You see, at the end of the day, no matter how beautiful, how winsome, how likable, how successful

we are, or how well-mannered and accomplished your children or grandchildren may be,

these mirrors are empty. They are vain. They are futile. They are fleeting. They are changing.

And they don't satisfy. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamooh, author of

Choosing Forgiveness for September 28, 2018. Yesterday, Nancy taught from Exodus 38 about the ministering women who gave up their most prized possessions, their mirrors, for the building of the tabernacle.

That leads us to consider what mirrors do you have in your life, and are you willing to surrender them to God?

Here's Nancy to continue exploring this topic. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the fairest of them all?

Who remembers what fairy tale those words come from? Snow White. Fairy tale by the Brothers Graham first published in 1812.

There are various versions and translations of that fairy tale I've discovered, but the gist of it is,

for those who may not remember, that the queen gives birth to a daughter named Snow White.

She's named for her pale white skin.

And then the queen dies when the child is born. And about a year later, the king marries another woman. This queen is beautiful, but she is,

according to the fairy tale, proud and overbearing. And she can't stand the idea of anyone being more beautiful than she is. So every

morning she stands and looks at herself in this magic mirror and says, mirror, mirror on the wall,

who's the fairest of them all? Who's the most beautiful of all? And the glass assures her,

you, oh, queen, are the fairest in the land. Well, the queen is happy

because she knows that the mirror is telling her the truth. She is the most beautiful woman

in the land. Well, Snow White, her stepdaughter, grows up and becomes more and more beautiful,

even more beautiful than her vain stepmother, the queen.

And so one day the queen asks her mirror, mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest, the most

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