The mirror that is so dreadful is that the mirror reveals to us our blemishes.

We can have a looking glass to tell us whether there's soil on our faces, but how can we tell

if there's a stain on our soul.

The first function of the law is,

as it manifests, the character of the God whose law it is. It is a mirror. Not simply a mirror that reveals

the face of God, but it is a mirror for us.

Why do you use a mirror?

It's been said that we never see ourselves as others see us.

That's because we don't have the perspective of being able to look at ourselves from without.

The best shot we have is to look at a mirror, which is to some degree distorted because it's a backwards

image of who we are, and we don't exactly look like our mirror reflection do we? But we glance at the mirror to see

that our hairdo is okay, you know that there's no ketchup on our tie, that we haven't

left a stain of food on our cheeks.

We look at that mirror out of our own vanity and our concern for how we look.

And the thing about the mirror that is so dreadful

is that the mirror reveals to us our blemishes, the stains that can be observed.

Now, we can have a looking glass to tell us whether there's soil on our faces,

but how can we tell if there's a stain on our soul?

There is no glass,

bright enough, reflective enough, to penetrate to the core of our character.

If we want to see an accurate reflection of our moral character,

we need a mirror far more powerful than the lenses or the glasses that we

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