Colossians 1:20 “and through Him to reconcile everything to Himself by making peace through the blood of His cross — whether things on earth or things in heaven.”
I am an Instagram junkie. There… I admit it. They say that is the first step, right?
If you don’t know what Instagram is, ask your kids. Or your grandkids. Or someone with a smart phone.
I don’t really know why I like it so much. Maybe because there is something about adding all those filters to my photos to manipulate the color and the focus that make me feel so… so… artsy, and creative.
The downfall to all these Instagram pictures that are taking over my social media is that every picture starts to look the same. The lighting, borders and colors are all so similar that the beauty of the photograph is getting lost. Artsy is okay, filters are fine, but there are times when clear, unfiltered pictures are so much better. In an attempt to express our individuality and be “hip” and “cool”, the masses are creating a generation of dingy, muddied, distorted images that all look the same.
Then again, not all filters are bad. Some filters give us protection. Sunglasses protect our eyes from the harmful rays of the sun, and sun shades for our car windshields protect our dashboards as well. The most important filter in our lives is the filter with which God views us. Once we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are covered in a new filter – the veil of the sacrificial blood of Jesus Christ. When God looks at us, and when we come to Him in prayer, he doesn’t see the sin and ugliness in our lives. He sees us as pure and white as snow because He is seeing us through the filter of the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross gave us the perfect filter. And we don’t have to do a thing to apply it to the picture of our lives except believe it.
Do you have that filter of Jesus in your life? If not, it is easy to get. All you have to do is ask Jesus into your heart, confess with your mouth that He is Lord, believe He is the Son of God who sacrificed Himself on the cross for the redemption of the sin in your life, and you will be saved.
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