An ordinary looking-glass can be used here if it is put in an upright
position.
It shows me myself just as I really am, not as I think I am, but as I
am. (Rom. 3:19.) The human heart shrinks from looking at it for it
shows the heart as it really is. And yet, to see one's self as it is
revealed in the mirror is the first step in the true way back to God.
A missionary to China once read aloud, to a large audience, Romans 1.
One of the Chinamen present said he thought it was very unfair and
unkind for the "foreign devil" (as missionaries were there called) to
come to find out all their secret sins and write them down in a book,
and read them out in that public way. It is a truth that the Bible is
a mirror, "Mine to tell me what I am."