Why Don't I look Like a New Creation in Christ in the Mirror?
by Michael Edwards
Most Christians have heard how important it is to understand their identity in Christ.
Righteous - Rom 5:19
Complete - Colossians 2:10 NASB Justified - 1 Corinthians 6:11
Sanctified - Hebrews 10:10 NASB Holy and without blame - Ephesians 1:4
Perfected - Hebrews 10:14 NASB
But when we look in the mirror, what we see does not always look like the new creation in Christ we are supposed to be.
Here is the Problem
We see our unredeemed flesh in the mirror and not our perfected Spirit. We are called to see our flesh as crucified and dead and ourselves alive in the Spirit. In other words, when we look at our flesh in the mirror or at other believers in the flesh, we are looking in the wrong place. This visible lack of change in the flesh has caused numerous believers to abandon the faith. We are so attuned to the flesh with ourselves and others. The problem, the mirror is all about sight and has nothing to do with faith.
We are called to walk by faith and not by sight.
for we walk by faith, not by sight—2 Cor 5:7 NAS
To run this race well, we fix our eyes on Jesus and not our dead flesh.
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith …Heb 12:1-2a NAS
To see ourselves in Christ as described in the Bible takes faith. This means we agree with what God, who lives outside of time, sees already, and tells us is true. What God tells us is true is as good as done, we are simply called to believe. When we do, bondages fall away, and we walk in the power of God.
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