This post was originally posted on my blogger acccount. Written on November 25,2014. Original title “I am not a picture.”

I am not a picture. I’ve never been one. I have flaws, I’ve made mistakes, and I stumble on a regular basis. My favorite color is dark teal, I love dark chocolate, and sushi. I’ve been told I’m funny sometimes, but I can’t tell jokes very well.

I love it when God tells us that he is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5) Maybe it’s because I really don’t like the dark, something has to be glowing for me to sleep well.

I am not a picture. But my life is a picture of God’s grace. Everyday is a picture of God’s mercy upon me. (Lamentations 3:22) He knows I’ll stumble, He knows my frame, He remembers that I am dust. (Psalm 103:14)

So, if I am not a picture, you aren’t a picture either.

Your life is a beautiful art piece that God is adding to day after day. You are a living, breathing, human soul, whom God loves very much.

Then why would you want to have a relationship with a picture? Considering you aren’t one.

You were meant to connect, first to God through salvation, then to others through relationships. Why would you want to connect to a picture? A picture doesn’t value you. A picture doesn’t challenge and spur you on to love and good works. (Hebrews 10:24)  A picture cannot help you become more like Christ. A picture can’t tell you that they love you. A picture doesn’t love.

God loves, people love. Pictures do not.

Think about it.