Galatians 6:3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

What do you see when you look in the mirror? A mirror is a reflection of reality but is the image in the mirror how we see ourselves?

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

What the mirror won’t reflect is what you were before you came to Christ. It cannot reflect your past. If we have been around long enough to have photographs of what we looked like before we came to Christ we can see physical changes, but not the changes that God sees.

What is it you want to see in the mirror?

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Some want to see Jesus in the mirror because we are hoping to be more Christlike.

Ephesians 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Philippians 2:13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

We will never see ourselves like God sees us until we see Him face to face.

I can change my image but not my character. That is God’s purview. 

Psalm 71:3 Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

1 John 1:5-10  English Standard Version

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

John 13:10 Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet,

Our feet being washed by Jesus is a sign of future forgiveness of confessed sins.

Do all sins need to be confessed?

I would say no, but only those whom the Holy Spirit has “pricked” our conscience. I am put into remembrance of that term in relationship to the yoked animal being driven by its master. Correction is only required when we stray off the path.