”Come
now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are
like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.” (Isaiah 1:18-19 NIV)
There was a time when it was expensive to
take photographs and very few mastered the art of taking good photos. However,
the digital camera simplified photography and now all can take pictures. If you
miss the head or a foot on the object it’s not a catastrophe. You can always
take a new picture. The advantage with a new technique is that as ’the object’
one doesn’t always have time to fix one’s image and appearance before the photo
is snapped. A few pictures are consequently less than complimentary. However,
such a still photo reflects the truth.
I sometimes
wonder what would happen if someone took a still photo of my heart. How does it
look in there in the unguarded moment, when I haven’t had time to correct my
image? How would reality look if someone should photograph the situation
exactly as it is? Would one see the heart filled with bitterness, grudge, lust
or envy? Or would one see a heart that is clean? – a ’disciple’s heart’? – A
heart that at any cost wants to follow Jesus? And a heart that burns for God’s
sake? What would the picture reveal?
Prayer
Jesus, I want to live openly in Your
presence. I want to live so that nothing need be hidden or kept from You. Thank
You that You know me so well that I don’t have to fear that something should be
revealed that You don’t already know. And thank You that if You should find
some sin in my heart You can cleanse me in a constant ’now’, so that I can be
that which You want me to be.
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