ZOMBIE WEAPONRY # 3: MIRRORS

Hello fellow Mirror Gazers...or is that Mirror Gavotters? Have you ever checked yourself out in a mirror lately? Have you walked by a window and saw your reflection and then adjusted yourself? How long did you stand in front of your mirror and primp and preen...making sure every feather was juuuuuuuuuuust right? Or did you look at the mirror and turned away in horror at the giant zit that has appeared on the tip of your nose? Or maybe you looked and said, "Lord...bless this mess."...and then headed out the door. Or did you pull a Fonzie...look in the mirror...begin to comb your hair...and then wonder why mess with perfection? In the old karate dojo...we have a wall of mirrors that we can watch as we perform the various techiniques, kicks, punches, etc...and realize that the MIRROR DOES NOT LIE...it merely REFLECTS what we are. It's like that old Carly Simon song...YOU'RE SO VAIN....
"You walked into the party...like you were walking onto a yacht...your hat strategically dipped below one eye..your scarf was apricot...You had one eye in the MIRROR, as you watched yourself GAVOTTE...and all of the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner, they'd be your partner...and YOU'RE SO VAIN, you probably thing this song is about you...YOU'RE SO VAIN...I'll bet you think this song is about you...don't you...don't you." GAVOTTE?????????? In all these years...I never knew that she sang GAVOTTE!!! Have you watch yourself GAVOTTE lately? It is a 17th centuray dance like a minuet...but faster and livelier. The Gavots were a people of the Hautes-Alps in France. Store this for your next Trivial Pursuit game.
VANITY: (1) Any thing or act that is vain, futile, or worthless (2) The quality or fact of being vain or worthless; futility (3) The quality or fact of one being vain or excessively proud of oneself or one's qualities or possessions; self-conceit (4) A small table or ledge with a MIRROR for use while putting on cosmetics, combing the hair, etc. SYN. PRIDE. In our THE LAST MAN ON EARTH scenario...Vincent Price...strategically places MIRRORS in various places...where the zombies can see themselves. In all the vampire movies...the walking dead are REPULSED by MIRRORS and cannot stand before them as they see themselves. They see either there lack of reflection (as a vampire)...or they see their reflection and are reminded of who and what they really are...dead. Who wants to be reminded that they are dead? Hopefully...we do....Oh Vanity of Vanities.
"This you KNOW, my beloved brethren. But let everyone be quick to HEAR, slow to SPEAK, slow to ANGER; for the anger of man does not achieve the rightousness of God. Therefore, PUTTING ASIDE all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, IN HUMILITY receive the WORD implanted, which is able to save your souls. But prove yourselves DOERS OF THE WORD and not merely HEARERS who DELUDE themselves... For if anyone is a HEARER of the WORD and not a DOER, he is like a man who LOOKS at his NATURAL face in the MIRROR; for once he has LOOKED at himself and gone away, he has IMMEDIATELY FORGOTTEN what kind of person he was. But one who LOOKS INTENTLY at the PERFECT LAW, the LAW OF LIBERTY, and ABIDES by it, not having become a FORGETFUL HEARER but an EFFECTUAL DOER, this man shall be blessed in WHAT HE DOES." James 1:19-25

The MIRROR is the WORD OF GOD. It reflects who we were...who we are...and who we are going to be...and as we walk by faith and not by SIGHT...we see the old man...but also see that when we are in Christ..the old things are passed away...behold NEW THINGS HAVE COME. (II Corinthians 5:17).

When we reflect on the list of deeds or outworkings of the flesh found in Galatians 5:19-21...we need to understand that they are alive and well because of our vanity. We do these thinkgs because...they are...ALL ABOUT ME BABY...ALL ABOUT ME. Everyone can justify why they have a right to do certain fleshly things...but the bottom line is that we are WALKING...OR GAVOTTEING in the FLESH...not in and by the SPIRIT.

The solution...the same thing that is used to bring us down...the MIRROR.

NEXT TIME: The Mirror Solution (The Word Reflection)

Until next time...May I have this Gavotte?
Rodo