Kodak is synonymous with photography; you hear people talk about kodak moment - candid moment. Growing up, I remember I used to wonder how you can take a picture with a click and in about a minute you have a printed picture coming out of a camera. Kodak was a company that allowed us to keep memories of ourselves... films, cameras and everything that allowed us remember happy as well as funny moments were due to the innovation of the great company Kodak. I remember some 15 years ago, there was an area called Kodak in the city where I live but the company took a big hit as a result of innovation and technological advancement. You do not need a film before you can get a great picture thanks to digital photography. On Monday January 23, 2012, Kodak, the photography giant filed for Bankruptcy! It was the end of a great era.
For as many of us that have received Christ, we can not afford to maintain status quo. There is a great need to keep growing, improving, evolving and soaring above the world and flesh. 2 Peter 1:5-9 The Message:
5-9"So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books."
Gone were the days when looks and dressing alone were the immediate characteristics of a Christian... these days every area and aspect of ourlives should speak volume and declare that we belong to a different kingdom. There are seven specific areas addressed in the scripture above, you and I owe it to ourselves to work on these areas to avoid spiritual banktrupcy... It does not matter how long you have known the Lord or whether your grandfather brought Christianity to your village, perhaps you are a descendant of clergymen, neither does it not matter if you are the first Deacon or Sunday School teacher in your church, except we keep adding the essential ingredient which is GROWTH, I pray we do not end up like that great company KODAK. Sad as it is, the founder would not have thought that a day would come when the company will struggle for financial existence but alas!
There are so many things we contend with these days as Christians; innovation and technology is a major one and due deligence has to be maintained to avoid getting swallowed in the many inventions that surround us and make our lives convienient. Why would you want to go through the stress of buying a film, taking it for prints,waiting and so on when you can just click and get the result? Convienience creeps in subtling to challenge our faith. Let us always have the essential ingredient in the face of convinience - let us keep growing and we will not decay.
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