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Giving Up Our Mirrors Read: Philippians 2:1-5 Bible in a Year: Deuteronomy 20-22; Mark 13:21-37 [Bezalel] made the laver of bronze and its base of bronze, from the bronze mirrors of the serving women. Exodus 38.8 When Moses gathered the of Israel together to begin work on the tabernacle Ex. 35-39, he called on Bezalel, a gifted artisan, to help make the furnishings. We're told that certain women were asked to give their precious bronze mirrors to make the bronze basin he was constructing 38:8. They gave them up to help prepare a place where God's presence would reside. Give up our mirrors? For most of us, that would be hard to do. That's not something we're asked to do, but it makes me think about how too much scrutiny and self-examination can be disconcerting. It can make us think too much about ourselves and not enough about others. When we can forget about our own faces quickly and remember that God loves us as we are in all our imperfections then we can begin to look out not only for [our] own interests, but also for the interests of others Phil. 2:4. Augustine said that we get lost in loving ourselves but found in loving others. Put another way, the secret of happiness is not getting our face right but giving our hearts away, giving our lives away, giving our selves away, in love. Father, may I think more of others today than I think of myself. May I lose my thoughts about myself in my thoughts of other people and their needs. A heart that is focused on others will not be consumed with self. 
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