Photography is a fickle thing.
Certainly, we have cameras in our phones, and they snap photos with a simple click. All we must do is hold up our phone and aim. We can even add in special effects, if we want. The phone does it all, even clicking the button, if we use the self-timer feature.
There’s more, however, to it, than just that one push of a button. A computer processor inside the phone controls all sorts of processes that make our photo come out the best it can be.
Of course, the picture we get is only “average.” The computer takes in all the information it receives, decides what it needs to keep, and throws out the rest. Only a portion of the information that floods through the lens gets saved, and what’s lost is lost forever. We can never recover it, even if the photo isn’t the best that it could be.
The trick is to reset our aperture to control the amount of light that floods into our lens. It’s all the difference in the world. Even the camera in our phone gives us some control over our aperture settings. To get the best photos, we need to step up our game. We need a camera that gives us full aperture control.
We need to move up to the professional level.
How about our spiritual snapshots? What about the photos we take with our “Christian” camera? How good are our aperture settings? Are we letting in God, or is the world flooding in, also? Are we trusting our spiritual future to automatic mode, hoping it will give us the best Christian witness possible?
Or have we stepped up to the professional level?
Whaaa? You might ask.
Professional level. Spiritually mature. Spending time in prayer and in reading the Bible. Associating with other Christians. Focusing our thoughts on Godly things and refusing to associate with the degradation of the world.
Hebrews 12:2 tells us:
“Looking unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
It’s called resetting our aperture: only letting in the things of God, ones that are pure and holy.
When we’re totally focused on God, we’ll become a photo-quality likeness of Christ in everything we say and do.
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