{"id":1450,"date":"2010-10-04T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pender.org.uk\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2011-08-26T11:14:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T10:14:33","slug":"mirror-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pender.org.uk\/index.php\/2010\/10\/mirror-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror, mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you see when you look in the mirror?<\/p>\n<p>Do you see somebody you like? <br \/> Do you see wrinkles, make-up? <br \/> Fancy clothes?<br \/> Nice hair, tousled hair, no hair?\u00a0 <br \/> Sadness, joy? <br \/> Comfort, pain? <br \/> A smile, a growl? <br \/> Satisfaction, dissatisfaction? <br \/> A good person, a bad person?<\/p>\n<p>What do you see?<\/p>\n<p class=\"bible\"><strong>So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.<\/strong> (Genesis 1:27 , NLT)<\/p>\n<p>Is that what you see? Do you see the image of God? Do you see the person God created, the way he planned you to be?<\/p>\n<p>They say that the camera never lies, and the mirror is the same, though maybe we don&#8217;t always see the truth it speaks. If the mirror can see the real you,<strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> then everyone else can too. What do they see? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">What do people see when they look at you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Since you were created in the image of God, what do you make God look like?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">And if God ever looks in a mirror, what does <\/span><em>he <\/em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> see? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Does he see you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you see when you look in the mirror?<br \/>\nDo you see somebody you like?<br \/>\nDo you see wrinkles, make-up?<br \/>\nFancy clothes?<br \/>\nNice hair, tousled hair, no hair?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[3,413,38,53,56],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian","tag-bibleblogs","tag-christian","tag-god","tag-life","tag-love","category-5","description-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfWaLo-no","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2110,"url":"https:\/\/pender.org.uk\/index.php\/2011\/01\/right-mountain-out-of-the-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":1450,"position":0},"title":"Right, Mountain, out of the way!","author":"Robert Pender","date":"27\/01\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A friend of mine will shortly set out on an amazing adventure - to climb Mount Kilimanjaro - to help raise funds for the charity Scottish Spina Bifida. 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If we have faith that big, we can move a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Christianity&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Christianity","link":"https:\/\/pender.org.uk\/index.php\/category\/christian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7072,"url":"https:\/\/pender.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/09\/just-thinking-what\/","url_meta":{"origin":1450,"position":3},"title":"3 &#8211; Just thinking what?","author":"Robert Pender","date":"30\/09\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=\"7073\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" style=\"vc_box_shadow_3d\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Most of the time, all is calm, then I'm in a bit of a storm. I was never a great fan of big dippers and so I always kept away from them. The trouble with this big dipper is that it comes to get me! 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