So I have learned that some people are just photogenic. You can catch them in the middle of anything and they look like a million bucks doing whatever they are doing. I, however, could never be a model. I don't have that "photogenic" quality. If you catch me in the middle of doing something, I do not look quite right. Even during some staged photos, my appearance is not quite what I want it to be. Unfortunately, photographs are what people usually look at if they don't know you. They can judge you by the photographs. Even when you think that you are having an "on" day, something might be off and it doesn't end up how you want it. You don't come across how you want to.
Just recently my little sister got married. HURRAY!!!! I had a great time at the wedding, but all the pictures of me look 100% awful. I don't know if it was how I had my hair or what, but I looked terrible. Now I have had my share of good pictures too, those are the pictures that I choose to show people usually but often times, it isn't always up to me what pictures are shown. Another memorable time that I had a terrible picture that everyone was going to see what when I got an award from our church and the picture is 100% unflattering but was printed in the newspaper.
We don't always have control of what pictures people are going to see of us. We can't say - "wait" and fix our hair or our makeup every time. Nobody is going to ALWAYS have a good picture but we have to remember that these snap shots are how allot of people will remember us. So if someone sees a "snapshot" of our inward appearance, what are they going to see? Are they going to see someone that is kind, compassionate, has a heart for the world or are they going to see someone that likes to dwell in drama, someone who likes to talk about others, or about themselves all the time?
People take a snapshot of our lives and they judge us by that. We take mental snapshots of others and often times judge them by that. It even says so in the Bible. 1 Samuel 16:7 "But the Lord said to Samuel, 'Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. the Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.' "
Thank God that he doesn't judge me by snapshots of my outward appearance! I am not always photogenic in the eyes of the world, but my personality snapshots are sometimes alright. I am going to strive to have my snapshots of my spiritual life and my personality (not my physicality) be always photogenic. I am going to strive to have a beautiful love for God show through in all my pictures and have mental pictures that God can look at and say - how beautiful!
Just recently my little sister got married. HURRAY!!!! I had a great time at the wedding, but all the pictures of me look 100% awful. I don't know if it was how I had my hair or what, but I looked terrible. Now I have had my share of good pictures too, those are the pictures that I choose to show people usually but often times, it isn't always up to me what pictures are shown. Another memorable time that I had a terrible picture that everyone was going to see what when I got an award from our church and the picture is 100% unflattering but was printed in the newspaper.
We don't always have control of what pictures people are going to see of us. We can't say - "wait" and fix our hair or our makeup every time. Nobody is going to ALWAYS have a good picture but we have to remember that these snap shots are how allot of people will remember us. So if someone sees a "snapshot" of our inward appearance, what are they going to see? Are they going to see someone that is kind, compassionate, has a heart for the world or are they going to see someone that likes to dwell in drama, someone who likes to talk about others, or about themselves all the time?
People take a snapshot of our lives and they judge us by that. We take mental snapshots of others and often times judge them by that. It even says so in the Bible. 1 Samuel 16:7 "But the Lord said to Samuel, 'Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. the Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.' "
Thank God that he doesn't judge me by snapshots of my outward appearance! I am not always photogenic in the eyes of the world, but my personality snapshots are sometimes alright. I am going to strive to have my snapshots of my spiritual life and my personality (not my physicality) be always photogenic. I am going to strive to have a beautiful love for God show through in all my pictures and have mental pictures that God can look at and say - how beautiful!
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