“If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!” So goes a favorite quote by Max Lucado.
Suppose it was your task to choose which picture He'd carry. Which picture would it be? In this era when the "selfie" is prolific and easily attained, when editing programs allow a vast array of expressive qualities to enhance a picture, the possibilities are almost endless for what you might choose to offer of yourself.
Take a moment and peruse the different pictures you have of YOU, maybe ones that have served as profile pictures on Facebook or as avatars on games or forums. Which would you like to present in a moment of sacredness? Which would you want Him to carry? More importantly, why that one? What does that picture tell you about how you see yourself? About how you'd like Him to see you?
To expand the exercise, thumb through portraits of you from the past. Ones you've liked, ones you haven't. Again, consider what about certain pictures resonated or irritated you? Your expression? The setting? The time of life they represent? Finally, bundle up all of this "you-ness" and present it to Him, remembering that no matter what you like or don't like about the image you carry at various times, nevertheless you are loved unconditionally by the one who keeps your picture near.
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