The Laver, a mirror; God's Word

Now we can choose to keep our mirrors and look into them and try to do good works to improve ourselves...or like these women of old we can give them to the Lord, AND LET HIM WORK ON US UNTIL HIS BEAUTY IS SEEN IN US. Jesus looks on us with the express purpose of seeing Himself, His own perfect image in our lives. If we continue to hold onto the mirror and try to improve ourselves in our own strength, we will miss going into the holy place and ultimately, the Holiest of all, the Holy of Holies. We need to turn our mirrors over to Him so that we can look into His mirror and see who we really are and be changed and cleansed by the "washing of the water of the Word." When we look into our own mirror we may come away satisfied with ourselves but when we look into His mirror, the Word, we say what Isaiah said in chapter six and verse#5, "then said I, woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts."Here are some references...Luke 18:11-13, Rev. 2:2-4, Rev 2:13-16...as God sees...
He knows all about us, He sees everything and many times when in His presence and looking in to His Word, I have said with Isaiah, that ancient prophet of Israel...I am undone. People of God, we need the daily cleansing at the Laver, we need to be like John the Apostle who declares in 1 John 3:2,3, "Beloved...don't you love to be called the Beloved....Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies Himself even as He is pure."It's a hope that purifies the Bible tells us...it is not the fear of hell that purifies...don't concentrate to much on hell, concentrate...focus on Jesus and be like Him. One day we are going to be like Him. One of these days we shall see Him as He is and that hope should cause us to live pure and holy lives. I want to see Him don't you? Don't be afraid of hell rather focus, concentrate on the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us be in a constant state of readiness having our hearts full of love for Him and for His Word. How tragic it would be if we have served the Lord all or most of our lives and at the end miss out by failing to be ready. I often think of the words of the great Apostle Paul when he said "Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world"...some of the saddest words in Holy writ. Jesus said "if you continue in My Word, then are you My disciples indeed." We must continue...we must come to the Laver every day and wash. We are saved by grace, we are kept by grace and that is by keeping His Word. I read a book while we were in Germany last year that was written by a Chinese Christian man who had spent many years in communist prisons simply because of his faith in Christ, and there are many, many Christians in prisons under deplorable conditions in China simply because they profess openly that they love Jesus, anyway this man, saint of God, committed to memory the entire Gospel of Matthew in a twenty eight day period. Psalm 119:11 says, "Thy Word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against Thee." to be cont'd.