I dreamt that I lost my camera. I was devastated and distraught, and dear was comforting me instead of chiding me. In that dream, I was angry with myself, and I asked myself "Will one still be considered a camera man without his or her camera?"
Somehow that question jolted me back into reality. This time round I asked myself some sort of the same question, but rephrased with a different intention. "What good is a camera man if he/she doesn't have a camera to take photos? Similarly, what good is a pianist if he/she doesn't have a piano to express music? More importantly, what good is a Christian if he/she doesn't have Christ?"
That caught me thinking. In the same illustration, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 states:
'If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.'
Indeed, what are Christians without love, or without God? What are humans, without a purpose and a calling?
In essence, it's a question of 'with' and 'without'.
Quite a bit thought provoking here, I must say. But these thoughts convicted me to draw closer to God. Because as mentioned, what good am I, a believer, if I have not loved or do not have Christ?
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