I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in His word I put
my hope.
- Psalm 130:5 (NIV)
The other day I was sitting in our bedroom when a random image
flashed through my mind: my husband peeking around the corner with a camera and
taking a candid picture of me. I have absolutely no idea why I thought of it,
but apparently that was all my brain needed to head down the rabbit hole of the
evolution of photography.
Remember film cameras? You bought a roll of film with a limited number of exposures. Every picture counted. You took the picture, advanced the film, and that was it. You had no idea if it was good.
You couldn't look at a screen to see if someone's eyes were closed. You couldn't immediately delete the blurry one and take another. You couldn't take 47 pictures hoping one would be perfect.
You waited.
First, you waited until you'd used the entire roll of film. Then you took it somewhere to be developed. And waited some more.
Eventually you got that little envelope of pictures back and finally discovered what you'd captured. Some were great. Some were blurry. Someone inevitably had their eyes closed. And occasionally there was that mysterious picture of somebody's shoe.
Then came instant photography. I remember my mom having a camera in the late '70s with one of those little cube flashes. The picture would come out, and she had something in a tube that she rubbed across it while it processed. It seemed almost magical. The picture was right there! But even then, we still had to wait for it to develop.
Today?
We don't wait for anything. Our phones are always within reach. We take a picture and instantly see it. Don't like it? Delete it. Take another. And another. And another. Somewhere along the way, I wonder if we've gotten so accustomed to instant results that we've forgotten how to wait.
Especially on God.
We pray and want an answer. Click. We have a problem and want a solution. Click. We need direction and want God to show us exactly where we're going. Click.
But God doesn't always work like the camera on our phone. Sometimes He works more like that old roll of film. You know you pressed the shutter and you know something happened, you just can't see the finished picture yet.
“I can't see it yet” does not mean “God isn't doing anything.”
Waiting isn't easy, especially when we've become accustomed to everything being instant. But some things take time to develop - sometimes circumstances are developing, sometimes relationships are developing, sometimes an answer is developing, and sometimes, while we're waiting for God to change what we're looking at, He's developing us.
So if you've prayed about something and you're still waiting, don't assume the picture is blank just because you can't see it yet.
God is still working - give it time - it may still be developing.
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Daily Inspiration from the Bible
- Psalm 130:5 (NIV)
Remember film cameras? You bought a roll of film with a limited number of exposures. Every picture counted. You took the picture, advanced the film, and that was it. You had no idea if it was good.
You couldn't look at a screen to see if someone's eyes were closed. You couldn't immediately delete the blurry one and take another. You couldn't take 47 pictures hoping one would be perfect.
You waited.
First, you waited until you'd used the entire roll of film. Then you took it somewhere to be developed. And waited some more.
Eventually you got that little envelope of pictures back and finally discovered what you'd captured. Some were great. Some were blurry. Someone inevitably had their eyes closed. And occasionally there was that mysterious picture of somebody's shoe.
Then came instant photography. I remember my mom having a camera in the late '70s with one of those little cube flashes. The picture would come out, and she had something in a tube that she rubbed across it while it processed. It seemed almost magical. The picture was right there! But even then, we still had to wait for it to develop.
Today?
We don't wait for anything. Our phones are always within reach. We take a picture and instantly see it. Don't like it? Delete it. Take another. And another. And another. Somewhere along the way, I wonder if we've gotten so accustomed to instant results that we've forgotten how to wait.
Especially on God.
We pray and want an answer. Click. We have a problem and want a solution. Click. We need direction and want God to show us exactly where we're going. Click.
But God doesn't always work like the camera on our phone. Sometimes He works more like that old roll of film. You know you pressed the shutter and you know something happened, you just can't see the finished picture yet.
“I can't see it yet” does not mean “God isn't doing anything.”
Waiting isn't easy, especially when we've become accustomed to everything being instant. But some things take time to develop - sometimes circumstances are developing, sometimes relationships are developing, sometimes an answer is developing, and sometimes, while we're waiting for God to change what we're looking at, He's developing us.
So if you've prayed about something and you're still waiting, don't assume the picture is blank just because you can't see it yet.
God is still working - give it time - it may still be developing.
Daily Inspiration from the Bible
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