I recently read this story about an English woman who, after a long day of work, came home to find her husband transfixed, staring at the bathroom mirror. The woman tried with all her might to break her husband's gaze to no avail. The woman noticed that his pupils were small as pinheads. It was then that she realized what had occurred.
The Londoner called a friend, specifically her husband's teacher, to talk with her husband and release him from his gaping. Within seconds, her husband snapped back to normal, blinked several times, and then walked slowly into the living room to sit down.
For several weeks the husband, named Helmut, had been studying hypnotism and learning advanced techniques to the point that he had began practicing for an upcoming show. What had happened is that Helmut, practicing in the mirror, had accidentally hypnotized himself and was stuck staring into the bathroom mirror for over five hours.
While this story is an incredibly humorous story about the risk in getting in over your head, it is also a colorful painting of trying to live a righteous life apart from the guidance and fellowship of Christ. Many people live their lives as zombies staring into the mirror, stuck in their life without any ability within themselves to snap out of the gaze.
Normally, I would spend time supporting the point by the weight of Scripture, however, today it would suffice to say that, while the above story is both factual and hilarious, it is also a good metaphor for life spent apart from God and apart from Christian fellowship, unable to break the hypnotized stupor without outside help. Therefore, let us break the zombie-esque self-hypnotized state and seek after God whole-heartedly!
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