White Balance

What is "White Balance"? Have you ever even noticed that setting on your camera? Like all electronics, a camera is only as smart as someone (someone smarter than me that is) tells it to be. When our eyes see something "white" it may actually be off-white, cream, eggshell, or just plain dirty, but our brain factors in all of that information automatically and is able to process, with very little effort, that the object is white-(ish). A camera, on the other hand, sees something as white when it is told the object is white and the camera uses that information as a standard and adjusts accordingly. If the camera is pointed at something cream and told the object is white then the photographs will not be entirely true in color. Want to see? Take a look at my pumpkin centerpiece and happy little scarecrow.

In the first picture it is as if you were dining at my table on Thanksgiving Day.







After setting white balance using a Coca-Cola can it is like dining at my table after being hit in the head - not great!

This is the way we should approach the Scripture...like a camera. We need to pour over the pages of God's Word and set our life's "white balance" to Truth. Afterwards, everything else: circumstances, emotions, and theories have to adjust around the standard. Unfortunately, we regularly read God's Truth and then modify and theorize until we end up with distorted information that eventually fails us. In these times we rail at God as if He has failed us, when in reality we put our eggs in a basket made of imagination. He is so faithful and so good that He wrote the book on it! Read, know Him, and really see.

White Balance:
"Oh that my ways may be established To keep Your statutes!" "How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word." "I will meditate on Your precepts And regard Your ways. I shall delight in Your statutes; I shall not forget Your word. Deal bountifully with Your servant, That I may live and keep Your word. Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law. I am a stranger in the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me." Psalm 119:5,9, 15-19