What is your true face?

One of my favorite Farsi songs translates as follows: 

“The stranger who has become a pain in your life is you, yourself! Sometimes the mirror lies, the face you see is not your true face.”

Do you ever look at yourself in the mirror and wonder if the face you see is your true face? Are you really the person, you pretend to be, or are you someone else? Do you ever wonder maybe the reason you are in trouble, is because of you, yourself? Do you ever wonder if you are judging other based on your own actions and in reality you are the one who needs to be judged? 

Luke 6:42

 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

What if you try something new? What if you looked at yourself in the mirror every morning and said to yourself: “I am not going to wear a random mask to cover my true self today, but instead, I want Jesus to be seen in me, I want to wear His loving face”?

I promise you that your life would be transformed.

Hungry

This week is the first week of Ramadan in Muslim countries. Ramadan is a month that Muslims fast from dawn to dusk and do not eat or drink anything. My wife and I experienced the darkest spiritual attacks in this month when we lived in Turkey. As Christians one of the best things we can do is to pray over all the Muslim countries (Specially this month) and be thankful to God for the salvation that we have because of His son Jesus.

Pray for Muslim countries. God will hear your prayers.

 

Jeremiah 17: 7-8

“… blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD,
   whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water
   that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
   its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
   and never fails to bear fruit.”