Being Successful Capturing the Right Selfie

Being Successful

Capturing the Right Selfie 

We live in a day where we love images

 and capture them with selfies.

So maybe our likeness and image

is more important than ever.

Maybe we should give more thought to capturing the image

and likeness of God in whom we were made.

Selfies… The world is addicted to them.

We love to take pictures of our self.

 

Young and old love to make all kinds of faces

and then look at their images on their phone.

Most of the images are meant to

show we are having a good time.

But what else do those images say to others?

The Bible gives us a number of scriptures about selfies.

So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:27

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness;

when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

Psalm 17:15

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,

 are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory

to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And to put on the new self, created after the likeness

of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 4:24

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image

of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 8:29

And have put on the new self, which is being renewed

in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Colossians 3:10

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we

curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

James 3:9

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we

should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason

why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has

not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall

be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone

who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

1 John 3:1-3

Your image or likeness is important to your success in life.

Every expression you make, the clothes you wear,

the actions you take, all have a likeness to something.

When people see you they will associate

you with an image or a likeness.

I must have an image of a helper.

On many occasions I have had people come

to me in a store and ask if I worked there.

The other day the name of a girl I

went to high school with came up.

She was a very loose girl with the guys.

50 years later the mention of her name brings

up the image of a loose girl with the guys.

Images stick with us.

In sales, the first thing you learn is the

first impression is the most important.

  You can preach about the evils of profiling.

I would agree we should not judge

based on the color of skin that is evil.

Our psychological and behavioral characteristics

will be assessed by others and associated with those

who have similar characteristics and color of skin

should have nothing to do with it.

In the 60’s, I wanted a leather jacket and my dad

said that would make me look like a Hells Angel.

I did not want to have the image of a Hells Angel

but being a skinny guy I did want to

look tough so bullies did not pick on me.

We live in a day where we love images

and capture them with selfies.

So maybe our likeness and image is more important than ever.

Maybe we should give more thought to capturing

the image and likeness of God in whom we were made.

Scripture Reading

Genesis 1:26-28

God spoke: “Let us make human beings in our image, make them
        reflecting our nature
    So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea,
        the birds in the air, the cattle,
    And, yes, Earth itself,
        and every animal that moves on the face of Earth.”
    God created human beings;
        he created them godlike,
    Reflecting God’s nature.
        He created them male and female.
    God blessed them:
        “Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge!
    Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air,
        for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth.”