Having the mirror pointed at you helps you to see the outer beauty,

Having God’s light pointed at you helps you to see the inner beauty.

Sin stains and defiles.

Sin creates cracks and allows strange creatures to live inside of you.

You can’t get rid of them on your own strength.

You can see them with your normal eyes.

You need His light. You need his presence.

Darkness can not chase out what is in the dark.

Only the true light can!

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The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

• John 1:9-13 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)