King James frames Proverbs 27:19: “As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.” This points us to several principles in the New Testament: the Golden Rule, sowing and reaping, judge not lest ye be judged (Matthew 7:1-3, 12; Galatians 6:7). We live in a world that is a circle (Ezekiel 1-2:2; Revelation 4:3), so our relationships are to be—but they only flow when they are rightly streamed through God’s Own Heart.
Life is a circle. HOLY.
No blockages, no breakages.
The main principle in this verse is “reflection”—Who is the main object of our life’s vision? Whomever it is, we will reflect.
If we “reflect” the Light and Ways of Heaven, if we reflect the image of God Himself (as in line with His intention of creation), we will release that same light and guidance of His upon His earth, upon others, upon our own atmosphere.
As a saved soul, you are to be a direct reflection of God.
Your “return” in this life is comprised of what you and God, together, have invested.
The guideline is: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7, KJV). Lady, “Believe, and you shall see God’s glory” (John 11:40). If God is in your heart, you think about Him, and think along with His Mind. If you believe you will see God’s glory, God is gracious to give it to you in ways you can directly feel and understand—that had to be God.
These verses all tell us that the state of the human heart is incredibly important. Though God far, far provides Mercy over and above anything we can ever earn in our humanness, as He works with us and teaches us how He wants us to believe, our “belief”, then, becomes directly linked-in to God’s behaviour. Not to say the Christian walk will always be easy; it won’t. But you are in an unending Divine Relationship with Almighty God, where He respects your behaviour and your choices. He has also sealed over hell with Jesus’ blood, therefore, pay utmost attention to Him—in the difficulty, in the times of ease—and He will pay utmost attention to you (though He always does, your realization of His attentions and affections will become far more evident to you; see James 4:8). He walks with you, closer than a brother, if and when you intentionally welcome Him to be there.
Conversely, if we begin to reflect the fallen world—"as I see here in the fallen world (not as I see in my heart which Art in Heaven with God) so I become”—this is heart disease that creeps up into the mind. We are then, in this perverse view of our God-given chance, running contrary to the faith, walking against it and not by it, then the spiral of our days becomes downward trending (broad path, not narrow). We have all been here, swallowed as if in the mud and muck and confusion, no boot-straps to pull ourselves back up, helpless. Yet, there is only one solution for each of us: look up to God for your guidance and your pattern on how to Be, and how to See. Ask for His Way. He is faithful, ever-faithful, to give it to you. As He saved you once, He always will. Narrow.
Once you see His kind face shining down upon you, being good to you, if you must look down again at all, look down only into the Word of God and how it sits inside your own soul, how the Holy Spirit does His work. Look down outwardly to lend a helping hand, to teach the Word, but you will then not so much expect other people to (always) do the same in return. In God’s rich and all-encompassing love, you won’t really need this last bit. My cup runneth over… (Psalm 23). It is not that we no longer expect great things and joy; it is that we expect them more, and expect them correctly, when we recognize these things come from God alone, and not man. Treatment from mankind is not always equated in this reward from God (vis-a-vis, the cross), for God alone is good and God rewards us all by Himself.
God does not need other people to bless you.
He will do it directly.
While sometimes He will use other people to bless us—assuredly—it is unmistakably God Who is doing it. When we completely understand this, we can love His created without expecting those created to treat us in-kind. Some will, but many will not—including, the hardest to learn, fellow Christians.
Remember,
· God is God, Christ is Christ, Holy Spirit is Holy Spirit.
· We have no other gods before the One True Living God.
· Our job is to keep our eye on Him, on our own paper (the Word of God).
“What is that to you, you follow Me…” (see John 21:21-22).
Therefore, how to be happy in this world is to look to God for Whom to emulate, to reflect, to fellowship with, to be your Friend, Lord, Family, All-in-All, for the One to talk to. Prayer skipped is a dialogue with God denied. And, I wonder how many times we have left God utterly lonely at the gate of Heaven, when He wants to hear our small voice, our tiny questions, our bizarre cases, our intense complications thrown up from the center of the world. If we only would talk to Him (more than ourselves and other people), we would REFLECT His mysterious and perfect answers upon our immediate world, and further the Kingdom of God throughout Divine Eternity.
Talk to God, even in silence. Listen to Him. When you do, you will, like Christ, radiate the Divine—for the One you spend the most time with will have a Presence and an Anointing and a Direction that can be perceived emanating from all over you and within you (Hebrews 1:3-5, AMPC). Love is God’s simplicity in the midst of evil’s complexity.
Your heart is the center of your life. A healthy heart, and life, has God fully occupying this center. The state of your heart is critical to how the rest of your life will go, so guard it with all diligence, for out of it flow the issues (and remedies) of life (Proverbs 4:23). God is the object of your affection. The sole purpose of man is to know God, and in so coming to know Him, we reflect Him in gradations of light and barely notice the trifles of the world. His beauty overtakes and overshadows them all. God is Divinely Impressive. He is imprinted on your soul, so simply be as calm and still as crystalline waters and reflect Him.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen (1 Peter 5:6-11, KJV).
May God continue to bless you and keep you as you talk to Him, listen and obey in accordance to the Word of God.
