It's Not About Me Personal Guidebook by Max Lucado

Author:Max Lucado
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: HarperChristian Resources
Published: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

PRIORITY 8:

LET YOUR

LIGHT

SHINE

SESSION A:

GOD’S

MIRRORS

If you want to get a sense of what people believe, or even what causes they oppose, check out their vehicle bumpers. Schools, political candidates, life philosophies—all sorts of things get promoted on those moving plastic and fiberglass billboards we call “bumpers.”

Here are some bumper stickers now showing at a parking lot near you:

• Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.

• Honk if you love peace and quiet.

• If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

• My wife, yes. My dog, maybe. My gun, NEVER!

• You’re just jealous because the voices only talk to me.

• As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.

• I love animals—they’re delicious!

• My karma ran over your dogma.

• Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

• Forget about world peace. Visualize using your turn signal!

If you have a bumper sticker on your vehicle, what does it say?

If you were required to promote something on your car, truck, or van bumper, what might your sticker say?

Finally, here are two bumper stickers with more theatrical (and even theological) overtones:

• My life has a superb cast, but I can’t figure out the plot.

• If all the world’s a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Keeping with that drama theme, what is the best stage production/musical you’ve ever seen? Best movie? Why?

Who are your favorite actors?

If Hollywood decided to produce your life story as a Broadway play or major motion picture, who would you choose to play you?

Have you ever acted? In school dramas? Community productions? Church skits? Were/are you typically chosen for starring roles or for smaller parts?

REFLECTING

We were created for God or, more specifically, for God’s glory. Our lives should reflect God’s glory. In so many words, we should be living reflections of the greatness of God.

Max cites a passage from 2 Corinthians 3 that highlights this bedrock truth:

“And we, with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord, all grow brighter and brighter as we are turned into the image that we reflect; this is the work of the Lord who is Spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:18 JB).

Note: The phrase “unveiled faces” is a reference to the veil Moses had to wear for some time after his face-to-face visits with God on Mount Sinai. A few verses earlier, the apostle Paul had reminded the Corinthians of this historical reality: “The people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses’ face. For his face shone with the glory of God” (2 Corinthians 3:7 NLT).

Max explains two ways 2 Corinthians 3:18 can be correctly translated—“beholding as in a mirror” and “reflecting like a mirror.” The former phrase conveys the idea of contemplating God’s glory, while the latter idea emphasizes our need to display God’s glory through our lives.

How are you doing at beholding or contemplating God’s glory? Are you a reflective person, in the sense of pondering God’s greatness and beauty? Where do you do this best and most effectively?

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