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25-Pack of Large Print Bookmark Gospel Tracts, 12-Point Type
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Her people called her “Good Queen Bess.” But as Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) grew old, her wrinkles were deep and many. It is said that an unfortunate Master of the Mint incurred disgrace by casting a too-faithful likeness of her on the shilling. The die was broken; and only one mutilated specimen of that coin is now in existence.
As a result, the Queen’s maids of honor took the hint and thereafter took care that no fragment of a looking-glass (mirror) should come into Her Majesty's hands. In fact, it is said that the Queen "had not the heart to look herself in the face for the last twenty years of her life!"
As a mirror may expose all the wrinkles and dirt that may be on a face, so does the Word of God expose the heart. Reading the Bible shows us our sins. If we refuse to repent and change, we soon get tired of seeing our "dirty faces" in God's Mirror―and so we stop looking into the mirror.
How foolish! It is better to see the dirt, to confess it, and to be cleansed by the blood of the Lamb. Say with David, the Psalm writer: "Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin." Psalm 51:2.
God will surely answer: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18.