Joel Osteen - The Right Mirror

I want to talk to you today about The Right Mirror. It's so important how we see ourselves. Your self-image will determine whether you reach your full potential. If you see yourself lacking, at a disadvantage, not attractive, it will limit your life. It's not that you don't have great potential, it's your self-image is distorted.

We have the big rodeo here in town once a year, and we always go early to the carnival. One of the attractions is this room filled with mirrors. You walk in front of one mirror, it makes you a couple feet taller. Another one makes your chest real big, your arms exaggerated. There are mirrors that leave your body normal, but your head is shrunk, your mouth, nose features, all out of whack. Certain mirrors make you look a hundred pounds heavier, a body all out of proportion. None of these images are a true image. It's not who you really are, they're all distorted.

And of course we're smart enough to know it's just for fun, we get a good laugh, and move on. But how many of us in real life don't recognize when we're looking at a distorted mirror? We see ourselves as not talented, not attractive, unqualified, made a lot of mistakes. Now that distorted image is holding us back. What would happen if we got rid of the wrong mirror?