"What you see is what you get." 

Or is it? In these technology bombarded times we live in, what we see is sometimes far from the truth. Movies, televison, magazines, internet images...they are all cropped and enhanced, changed and rearranged. It seems nothing is worth posting unless it fits the image of "perfect" that Hollywood has defined...but that is a blog for another time..

I got to thinking about the photoshopped images we see, and it occurred to me...am I a"photoshopped" Christian? Do I sometimes put the image out there that is untarnsihed, more vivid than actuality, more glowing than true? Do I put on a face for others to see  that is unlike that God sees? God isn't fooled by "photoshopped" images. He upholds our lives to the mirror of His word to see how we reflect. I want what God sees to be what the world sees too. I don't want to just APPEAR to be a Christian...I want to truly be one, from the depths of my very being. In today's world, it seems a lot of people are claiming to be Christians, but I'm afraid they are photoshopped. The image they send  out doesn't always "jive" with the way they are truly living their  lives. I don't  want to be that way. I want to be a true image. I have flaws...I'm not perfect. I get angry and sad, jealous and rude. I am not always happy with what I see, but I can only begin to work on changing the reflection in the mirror if I am honest about what I am seeing. I don't want it to be "touched up". I want it  to be changed....to be created in the image of God...to reflect Him.

May your day be joyous and your heart be happy!

-Andrea