Obsession…..
For the last 43 years, as a photographer, I have been obsessed with lenses!! There, I said it, admitted it, and owned up to it!!!! Nothing in photography has consumed as much of my time as trying to determine if the lenses I had, or the ones I wanted to buy, were sharp enough, distortion free enough, or color correct enough to allow me to make the images I hoped to make. Last night I said good night to Sherelene and let her go on to bed while I sat on the couch and read about, you guessed it, lenses!!!!!
I discovered something very important, and it won’t affect my photography much one way or the other, I’m obsessing about the wrong things! I came smack up against the realization that I don’t obsess as much about my relationship with God as my lenses…… Bummer, what an awful thing to come face to face with. I do love my Lord, and I read the Bible, and pray, and call on Him every day. I try to serve Him, and adhere to what I believe He is revealing to me. But I get obsessed with a small metal tube filled with glass!!??
It is a bad habit, one that the enemy helps us cultivate, to find anything that will take us away from considering what is most important in life, our relationship with Him! I know how much He has given to me, how fortunate I am to be forgiven, to have a wonderful family, great friends, and a profession I really enjoy, but I need to not let anything supplant my worship and attention to my time with Him!!!!!
I am committing to seek release from such obsessions!
Blessings,
the pilgrim
This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013 at 3:26 pm
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Bill, A good message for all of us. Many times in life we become focused on the wrong things. Thanks for helping me adjust my priorities.
Doug Berg
We all do get off the track, glad I’m not alone!
Amen! Right there with you.
It’s good to know when you’re out of bounds!
We talk about the Nikon 14-24, the 24-70, and the 70-200 as being the holy trinity of lenses (…wish I had all three, note the obsession here….). We need to remember God is the one true Holy Trinity, and so much more worthy of our obsession. Time for my own personal adjustment.
Yes that whole Holy a Trinity thing has always bothered me a great deal, it would enough to call the the “Big Three!” I have no problem with loving optics, I just don ‘t want it dominating my mind!
Amen
Amen back!
Bill,
Thanks for having the link to Dr Charles Stanley’s – Daily Devotionals on your website. I have added it to my daily reads along with Grace to You from John MacArthur.
May God’s blessings be upon you and your family.
Thanks Ken and you too!
The magnificent obsession for all of us – knowing God! May we all grow in our relationship with Him.
It happens when I get out of the way!!! Hope you and David are good!
I know I get off track too often. Hate when that happens. Thanks for the reminder as to Who should be our obsession always.
Your welcome!
Bill,
God works through and in us always, and His work in you with this has also worked through to others. I read the comments above mine, and realize that it spoke to far more than just me…but it indeed spoke to me. I have been dealing with this very issue for some time now, along with some other issues I brought home from this last trip to Afghanistan. Thanks for posting, and for the exposing honesty. It’s a constant reminder that you are NEVER alone if you are in God’s family.
Thanks,
Ben
Ben , you are not alone, and because of Him, you never will be!!!
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