<TITLE>05. Par 37-43</TITLE>L-37 In my part of the country, in Kentucky, the country means in a log house somewhere, with some old clapboard shingles on it. And so our mirror, at home, was a piece of a mirror tacked on a tree, where, outside, where there's a little wash-bench built on the tree, by the pitcher pump, where dad would pump the water and wash his hands, and piece of mirror there. And I've seen Mama stand out there and comb her hair, 'cause there was no mirror in the house.

L-38   This little lad must have been raised in such a home. And when he came down to visit his grandmother, she had a--a door that, on the back side of it, was a mirror. And the little lad was kind of lonesome. And he was looking all around the house. And after a bit, he happened to look through the door. And it had been closed, since they come in. And--and in the mirror on his side, he saw a little boy. And he started to the little boy, to make friends with him. And as he begin to look into this glass, he got up close. And he turned around, he said, "Why, mama, that's me."

L-39 And that's what we want to look at tonight. I want to look at me, and I want you to look at yourself. And as we look into God's great Mirror of His Word, let's our... be able to identify ourselves with some that we're going to speak about, some of the characters of other times. And I want to see myself in--in God's looking glass. Cause, if anything will show you where you're standing, it's this Book. There is no book like It, 'cause It is all Truth. I don't say that other books are not true, but I--I know this One is true. It's all Truth, because It's the Word of God.

L-40   Now, Jesus gave us the Example of what we ought to be looking at, when He reflected His Life to us through the Word, what we should see. When we look into God's mirror, we should see ourself identified with Him. That is a perfect Example.

L-41 Now, but we find out that, as we go along through life, that our character molds the image that we are. Each one knows that. You, as you live, so is your character, molds you to what you are. Now, you have seen people that you just love to be around, yet they might not exactly be in--in your bracket of society. And, again, they might be of a different race, the colored, or the brown, or the yellow. But there just something about that character, that you just love to be in their presence. Because each person is a--a little dynamo of their own, and you--you put out an atmosphere.

L-42 And then you see people that were noble people, but yet you were always glad to get away from them. It's just they--they create such an atmosphere around where you are. Nothing against them, they're nice people, but you just don't like that atmosphere, they, they're... they're in. And their character creates whatever they are, makes them what they are.

L-43   When God looked upon His lost creation, after He had made it and fashioned it just the way He wanted it. And I--I like to look at it in its origination. I--I love the outdoors, because, there, that must be the way He wants it, or He wouldn't have it made that way. And we come around and pervert it, and make something out of it that doesn't please Him. But, His loving character, molded; God, seeing that His--that His great plan and creation of mankind to inhabit the earth, and to live in peace, and never to die, never to be sick or have a heartache or any worry. Oh, what a--what a way that the Father provided for us! And that was His--that was His desire, too, for us to be in that way. He didn't desire us to be in a dying shape as we are. This, and the--the condition that the world is in today, is never the desire of God. He didn't mean that, at all.


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