I was discussing the way digital cameras and digital photos have altered our photographing experience with a friend earlier. Not only have they altered the way we view photography, they also affect the way we see ourselves.
Gone are the days when we had to develop a whole roll of film just to see how many photos were actually 'usable'. We had to sift through the blurred images, those with a thumb distorting most of the picture, the photos where the subject is off to the side or at an odd angle. And the red eyes.
These days, we can instantly check our photos and see whether or not they 'measure up'. If we're not completely satisfied and we don't feel that we look good enough, we can improve them and edit them and digitally manipulate them until we are happy. And, if the worst comes to the worst, we can hit 'delete' and we can get rid of them.
If there's anything we're not completely happy with, we can simply get rid of it.
I sometimes wish it was that easy in life, too.
But unfortunately we have to deal with the difficult and messy things in our lives along with the beautiful and air-brushed parts too - we can't simply delete the bits we don't like.
We can't. But God can.
The Bible says that,
"He does not punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve. For his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west."
[Psalm 103:10-12 NLT]
He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.
We can't 'delete' and remove the things that we don't like from our own lives, but when God looks at our lives, He doesn't keep a record of our wrongs - He doesn't keep all of the 'bad photos'.
Instead, He looks on us with immeasurable and unfailing love and compassion.
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