Signal Mirrors!
"Oh, that my actions would
consistently reflect your
decrees!"
Psalm 119: 5
In the 1980s, a surgeon and party were floating down the Colorado
River when their raft got away from them. The cord wrapped around
the doctor’s leg and dragged him across the rocks. His son cut the
cord, but the wounded man was stranded with no way out.
But a friend had a small mirror, a signal mirror. Using Morse code,
the friend sent out a series of flashes that caught the eye of a pilot
in a jetliner flying at 35,000 feet. The plane radioed for help, and
soon the injured rafter was lifted to safety.
We don’t have to be very large, strong, important, or well-known
to reflect the Lord’s glory. Signal mirrors are small enough to fit
in any backpack or pants pocket.
Yet they’re capable of transmitting
signals as far as one hundred miles
in the right conditions.
Though we may be small and our time on earth fleeting, “all of us…
can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the
Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed
into
his glorious image” (2 Corinthians 3: 18).
"Since we have entered into union
with Christ, the life of Christ should
be reflected in our lives."
Paul Enns