We’ve all
experienced it: that awkward conversation when you can see yourself in the
other person’s sunglasses. It’s
weird on several levels. First of
all, you feel like you’re talking to yourself- is there really someone behind those darkened lenses? Secondly, you don’t really know where the other person is
looking- can they tell you’re checking yourself out in their shades? And lastly, you always notice something
not so pleasant in your reflection- a clump of disobedient hair, a zit that’s
grown dramatically over the past 3 hours since you’ve seen a mirror, or maybe a
little residue left over from lunch on your chin. I really don’t like these conversations. I don’t want to be looking at myself
and I am constantly distracted by all the imperfections of my reflection
staring back at me that the conversation goes quickly by the wayside.
This afternoon I
had one of these “see-yourself-in-the-shades” conversations and something
struck me: when Christ sees me, I
am (in a sense) wearing sunglasses.
Once accepting Christ into our lives, God sees us through the
“Christ-filter.” Suddenly it has
nothing to do with what I’ve done and it becomes about who I am in Christ. God looks at me, sees himself in the
reflection of my shades, and every imperfection I fear is wiped away.
“Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has
come! All this is from God, who
reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed us to the message
of reconciliation. We are
therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though Christ were making his appeal through
us. We implore you on Christ’s
behalf: Be reconciled to God. God
made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-21)
So stand with
your head held high wearing the sunglasses of Christ. You are forgiven.
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