Have you had your passport picture taken lately? Passport pictures are notoriously unflattering. It has been said that if you can recognize yourself in a passport picture, you’re too old or too sick to travel. Most of us can relate to seeing a picture of ourselves that we really dislike. Perhaps it made us look too fat, or too thin, or had some physical distortion that displeased us. But there is one place where we get a true picture of ourselves. James wrote in the New Testament “…if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and forgets what he was like.” When we look into the mirror of God’s word and see our true selves, there is recognition of our spiritual needs, and an awareness that we need to ask God for his mercy and forgiveness.