My new internet fascination is viewing the surprise presentation of "movies" of all my Facebook friends. It's an innovative idea that everyone seems to like, but it's also a little unsettling to realize someone analyzes all your posts, makes independent selections of what you'd like to see, then sets them to music. (Although, of course we all realize that we give up control of our entries the minute they are published.)
The shots we have shared are usually those putting us and our subjects in a good light, even though they may be of funny or unguarded moments. In most, we have carefully posed and dutifully smiled, with some being even of our most important and formal moments, such as wedding or graduation pictures The best are almost always of babies and children, who are completely unselfconscious in their innocence and cuteness.
They say when we die, a movie of our entire life plays out before us. I have a friend who had a near-death experience when she almost drowned, and she said that happened to her. She was a young girl at the time and still recalls the scenes of her childhood flashing through her mind.
We know that the Bible says that we will all stand before the judgment seat of God at the last day. Perhaps there will be a playback of our lives that will bear evidence of our earthly behavior. If so, we would not be able to select just the flattering pictures or those when we were doing a good deed, but every scowl or grimace and hateful thing we have ever done would be on display.
There is one caveat, thank God, and that is if you have trusted Jesus as your Savior, your sins are blotted out. Even so, Christians will be judged at the judgment seat of Christ according to their works and and receive or lose rewards accordingly. I Corinthians 3:14, "If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. (15) If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire".
What kind of picture does that present for us as individuals? Now is the time for us to make our "calling and election sure" (II Peter 1:10).
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