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Since this is my last “Reflections,” I found myself remembering how it all started. Soon after I arrived, a church member emailed me and suggested that it would be good to hear from the pastor more often than just on Sunday morning. So, we decided to start a daily “Reflections” blog and I invited some of the staff members to join me in writing one per week. We set a 350-word limit, thinking that would be about the right length that people would read. I have enjoyed the different voices of staff members and church members over the years. No one wrote “Reflections” the same way as anybody else, and that was good! From time to time, someone will comment in an email or a text, how a particular “Reflections” spoke to them that day.
When it comes to “Reflections,” these words that we write are usually our reflections on something in our journeys of faith that we have discovered and want to share. Today, I was thinking about how we are like reflecting mirrors. We are to reflect God's love, grace, and light out into the dark places of the world in need of such things. We are also called as Christ followers to reflect the praises of the world back to God in worship – which, as we say, is “the most important thing we do.”
I am reminded of the passage from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians in chapter 13, often called “the love chapter,” in which Paul writes these words: “For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part: then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. These three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” So, keep reflecting the faith, hope, and love of Christ into your world!
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