The
Benefit of Pictures
Pictures
are great inventions that allow us to remember special events in our past. Wedding
pictures help you to remember the day that you said I do . . . and realize just
how young you both were. Pictures document your child’s changes from before
birth and the rest of their life. In short, pictures are awesome and are
definitely an invention to be thankful that God allowed man to make. I mean,
pictures preserve memories, moments, a landscape, a person. Yes, we should be
careful that we don’t worship pictures like graven images (it is possible to do
so). Yet we can record our history in another form than print—one that many
words just cannot fully describe.
The smile of your bride when she held your
first child, the birthday where you were so blessed to have great family and
friends with you, the excitement of your daughter when she gets engaged—all
these moments can be “frozen” and preserved in a picture. Let’s pause and thank
the Lord for the gift of pictures and for the inexpensive technology to do so.
