Where do you stand?

So I was reading a new post by an author of one of the blogs I follow, Jeremy Cowart, he mentioned a quote, which you can read from HIS site. What a world we live in today. It seems to be going deeper into the whirlpool with no sign of stopping.

Which part of the jersey do you care about? Current American culture cares about the number on the back. what can I do to get my recognition, how can I market myself to make me more money, etc,etc. Where do you stand? As a photographer, as a human, as a member of the kingdom of The Most High?

As a photographer of people, Your very best… your VERY best… should be all about bringing the spotlight to those you photograph. How can you use the anointing and gift you have been given to bring fame to the subject in your photos and not so much yourself?

This works also in landscape photography… The goal is to bring the beauty of the creation to others. The focus is capturing the beauty of the MASTER artist, and leading the viewer to Him.

What about the musician, the potter, the painter, the gardener, the father, the mother? How selfish we can be, yet how humble we need to be. Humility is part of the armor of The Kingdom, the kingdom of love, whereas the armor of the dark is pride.

Re-evaluate. Are you working for the kingdom or for your own gain? What would you do if the giver of your gift took it away for a season? Scary, to say the least. I am challenged here. We all have our areas we need to change. I have never seen the forest for the trees, instead, I have always seen the forest as the art of a creator, however, I don’t want my family to starve either. What is balance? What, in the kingdom, will get me further and more “treasure” than I could ever know what to do with? Humility!

Humility is THE greatest thing under love to govern your life by. One should radically devote all of ones income of life, not just money, to love and humility. To do so is greater than investing in a flimsy old retirement plan (not that you shouldn’t invest in a retirement). You have a greater retirement possibility AFTER you are gone that we should be investing in. Think Kingdom economics!

So I will ask it again… What part of the jersey are you concerned with?