SELFIE; THE IMPORTANCE

Hello friends, I trust you had an awesome time last week. This week we will take a look at the importance of selfie. A selfie is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a digital camera or camera phone held in the hand or supported by a selfie stick. At age 13, far back in 1914, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was one of the first teenagers to take her own picture using a mirror, sending it to her friend, she wrote in the letter that accompanied the photograph, “I took this picture of myself looking at the mirror…” 

Today, every one of us can relate to this word and almost every other day we take selfies, either to save a memory, to see how good we look or to share with a friend. And these days’ mobile phones are made to accurately take selfies.  Basically, cameras function by taking the beams of light bouncing off of an object using its lens and redirect them so they come together to form a real image –an image that looks just like the scene in front of the lens.

The word selfie is ‘self-centered’, it draws the focus of the camera to you, so as to capture the real image. I strongly believe that we can take selfies not just to see how we look physically but we can actually take daily and routine selfies to see how we are doing mentally and spiritually. Just in case you are wondering what am saying, a daily self-check on how you are doing mentally and spiritually will go a long way to make you the man of your dreams and visions.

The same way we take selfies with our phones and we keep adjusting our position so as to get a good pose to fit the image we have in mind, the same way we can take a mental or spiritual selfie to position us to fit into the image of our dreams and visions. I also know in taking selfies with our phones, we deslete many of the pictures that don’t fit into the perfect picture we have in mind. This same way we are to delete everything that disrupts the mental and spiritual picture we have seen in our dreams and visions of ourselves.

Let me show you the way to do this. I coined these words to explain better; SELFIE-MENT (ment from mental –relating to the mind) and SELFIE-SPIRIT (relating to the human spirit).

SELFIE-MENT: this is basically taking a selfie of your mind, you say how? Just the same way you take physical selfies and delete the unwanted pictures, take a look at the state of your mind. Remember the mind is the seat of your thoughts and as a man thinks so is he, meaning we are products of our mind. So if your mind is not healthy, don’t expect to be healthy. If your mind is filled with fear, hate, anger, anxiety or failure, these are the things you will see in your life. The mind works with the garbage in garbage out principle. So take a selfie-ment, see if what you have on your mind is what you want to see around you or become, if not, delete them. The bible says in Romans 12:2, And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Renewing of our mind can only come by relieving our minds of the garbage and filling it with the treasures that will make our dreams and visions.

SELFIE-SPIRIT: Now, this is a must for anyone that will make a mark with God. It is very important we check our spirit man. Man is a spirit that has a soul and lives in a body. So you are spirit, if you can take selfies of your body, what about the real you. How do you do this? By daily looking into the perfect law of liberty. See how James puts it, in James 1:23-25; For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Each time we look into God’s word we capture our real image. It helps us to discard every image that is contrary to what God has made us. And the best way to do this is by doing the word. Another way is by letting our conscience do the job (1 John3:20). A good conscience will always do the job.

I can go on and on to point to you more ways to take selfies. You can set your focus on your marriage, relationship, academics, money, etc. Just as your camera through its lens receives light from an object to form a real image. Receive I pray you the light from God’s word and create in you a real image. As I close, remember what the Grand Duchess said in my opening statement, “I took this picture of myself looking at the mirror…”  What mirror are you looking at? Think on this as you scale new heights this week.

Have a grace filled week.