Image Quality

In Photography now a days a picture is taken normally with a digital or DSLR camera. The image is automatically portrayed on the view screen.  It's wonderful and quick. Not only that, but the image is then downloaded onto a computer screen and edited and retouched for further enhancement.  Wonderful work is then produced with proper editing and processing. Awesome right? But here is the downfall of all this. Do you know what I realized? The more you edit a photo the more compressed it can become, and as it becomes more and more compressed the actual quality of that once raw image decreases. 

Let's now look at old school photography.  Here, the picture is taken and placed on film.  You cannot see the image you took. However you are trusting that it's there. Once the photos are taken, the film is then taken out to be developed. . . and where do they develop these photos? ...that's right, in a dark room.  The result... a simple image is produced, and it may not be as fancy and bright as an edited photo, but here is the key. The quality of the image is far greater.

Ok, so what does this have to do anything right? Well as I am exploring the journey of unmasking, I think it's critical to understand little messages and analogies that pop into my head every now and then...and share them with you!...Your Welcome.

When we are born again, there are things planted in us that need developing.  Such as faith. When we receive Christ the seed is planted, but it is up to us as to how much we let it grow. Now we can be like our nice fancy DSLR cameras that display it all on the screen where we can see, and if we don't like what we see no worries...we can edit and manipulate the image to our liking.  Yet, all the while we will make an end result that has less quality than when it started. This is kind of like our faith with God right? Let's face it, we gotta see everything like an image on a screen to believe it. In life we manipulate and try to fix situations on our own skill and strength, and end up with a quality of life that may meet our own expectations but are far below the standards and quality of life that God had planned for us. 

But let's look at the old school film cameras. Where is the image developed? .... in the dark. Once you take the photo you cant even see the end result until it is processed and developed in those dark places. How inconvenient is that! Kind of like our faith in God. You see, if we saw everything that was ahead of us; there will be no need for faith.  Not only that, but we may not be ready for what is ahead. That is why those dark places where we cant see a thing and those times where life seems so unstable, and waiting for an answer or result seems so long and unbearable....those are the times,  when our faith is developed most. It leaves out room for our own decisions, and manipulations, and totally relies on God for an end result.  And the beauty of this process is that although our faith was developed through dark places in our  life, the quality of our future far outweighs anything we could have ever pictured for ourselves.