When you look in the mirror do you see the past? Ezekiel 13-18

Do you know your origins?   In Ezekiel 16 God goes to great length to remind Judah (the southern two tribes) about their history and, specifically, their origins.  He charts for them their humble beginnings.   He tells them they were nothing until He "saved" them - until He rescued them from their peril and insignificance.   He set them up and blessed them.  He gave them many gifts.  He clothed them with fine linen and jewelry.   God took a poor and destitute and no body and made him God's children (16:1-14).    That is what God did for us.  God took us when we couldn't save ourselves and saved us.  He cleaned us up and made us righteous.  He clothed us with love and peace and patience (or ... "is" clothing us with these things).  He made us His children.   When no one would take us He did.   We can't help but read Ezekiel 16 and see Romans 8.   We can't help but read Ezekiel 16 and see Grace.    God expressed His grace to them just as He expresses grace to us.  But, they rebelled.  See 16:15!!    They looked in the mirror and no longer saw their destitute past.  They looked in the mirror and saw the beauty that God had bestowed upon them.   They looked at their reflection and didn't see the horrid past but the perfect present God had given them ... and, they rebelled.   Do we do the same?  Do we look at what we have "become" and forget what we were?   Do we now trust in our own beauty?  Do we now trust in our own skill sets that "we" have developed?  God took us when we had nothing and made us what we are.   Do you now rebel?