💭 Consider this: What “image” are you most concerned with maintaining in your life right now, and why does that image feel so important to you? How does remembering that your true image is shaped by Christ—not by people—challenge the way you currently live and present yourself?
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III. They Glorified God
Our final point is: they glorify God.
Obviously, mirrors are used to show a reflection of ourselves. We want to see what we look like and, if possible, to improve our looks. Generally, people feel good knowing that they look good, and they feel even better when others think they look good.
In a sense, like the title of our message, they will look into the mirror and say, “Mirror, mirror on the wall.” Maybe they may not say, “Who is the fairest of them all?” but they will say, “Am I fair enough? Am I beautiful and handsome enough? Am I good enough to go out in this outfit?”
It is all about the outward physical appearance. Right? There’s nothing wrong with the outward physical beauty, but there is something more important than that, and it is the inner beauty.
The Bible is not saying that it is wrong for women to look beautiful. Which woman does not desire beauty? The emphasis here is against the preoccupation with external beauty. Instead of devoting all your time, and effort, and money on external beauty, it is the inner beauty that is more important.
The woman who has inner beauty will know what to wear on her outside. A beautiful woman is one who has inner beauty and radiance. That is why verse 4 says, “But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”
All the earthly fashions of this world will soon pass away. But the inner beauty of spiritual virtues will not pass away because it is not corruptible. It is not corruptible because this quality of humility and a quiet spirit is very precious in the sight of God.
And God is the only One who can see into the innermost of our hearts. He is the only One who can see the beauty of the inner person that no man can see. And it is so precious to Him that the Bible says it is of good, great price.
When you and I look into the mirror, what do we see? Do we only see features we wish we could change, flaws we wish we could replace, wrinkles we wish we could remove? Or do we see a man or a woman loved by God, who has been justified by the blood that Jesus offered on the cross and is being cleansed daily by the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit?
When we look into the mirror, do we see such a person?
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