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 God Enables Us to See Ourselves through the Mirror of the Law ㅡ

 “For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” (James 1:23-25)

 The soul must first be convicted of sin before the sinner will feel a desire to come to Christ.

 “Sin is the transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4). “I had not known sin, but by the law” (Romans 7:7). 

 God’s law is the mirror presenting a complete reflection of the man as he is, and holding up before him the correct likeness.

 Some will turn away and forget this picture, while others will employ abusive epithets against the law, as though this would cure their defects of character.

 Still others who are condemned by the law will repent of their transgressions and, through faith in Christ’s merits, will perfect Christian character.

 (Faith and Works 31)