The Image of God

A word before you start reading this. (I guess you are already reading this if you have made it this far, so disregard that first sentence.) I know a lot of you reading this blog have never really known a time when cameras actually used film, but that used to be the only option. Go ask your grandparents about the dark ages when you had to put film in your cameras.


     Cameras fascinate me. You aim them, push a button, and an image is captured forever on film. I have had the science behind exposing film explained to me several times, but I still think there is magic involved somehow. However it works, it does; every time. What ever it is facing when the film is exposed will be captured on the film. The film will be changed into an image of what it was exposed to.

     We are a lot like film. We become an image of what we are exposed to. We know that we are created in the image of God, but that quickly changes as we continually expose ourselves to the world. Just like film, we become an image of what we are exposed to.

     God calls us to repentance, a 180 degree turn. Why turn around? We need to turn around so we are no longer exposing ourselves to this world of sin. We need to turn around and expose ourselves to the glory of God, that way we will take on the image of God; the very image we were first created in. What is on your spirit's film?