GodSprings - 15, March, 2018

Have I Fine-Tuned Myself?

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4.16

From the very childhood I was interested in photography. Though I have not really taken it up as a hobby or passion I loved to take photos whenever there was a camera in my hands and I loved seeing people take beautiful and breathtaking photos. One such photographer that I met was Mr. Saju Ninan. He is our member at Ludhiana and I got to know him closely during my term at the Ludhiana church for three years. His photos were amazing. Once he showed me his collection of cameras. He has the latest with him. As soon as a new model arrives he would buy it. Once when he had brought the camera to take pictures of first communion at church I asked him to give me the camera to take a picture.  Till then I thought its the camera that did the trick and a little bit of adjustment from our side. I took a picture and he took another. I jokingly told him, “Bhaiya I thought it’s the camera that did the trick”. And he replied, “It sure is the camera that does the trick but you need fine tune to get the picture in your mind. That work the camera cannot do.”

I believe all instruments whether it be our bike, TV’s, AC’s, refrigerators everything needs to be fine-tuned to get the maximum result. If that’s the case I believe spiritually too we need to be fine-tuned to produce the maximum result.

When Paul wrote this letter to the church in Corinth, he took a moment to reflect on his own life and ministry. It had been a difficult journey for him. But he did not lost heart. The only way Paul managed to keep fighting was to sharpen his focus and fine-tune himself towards that which counted the most.

Paul knew that there is no way that he can stop the outwardly wasting away. But he knew that this is not the case inwardly. He says inwardly we can be renewed day by day. Paul knew that the fine-tuning of his faith would be a daily process.

Fine-tuning is not a noisy process. The only thing this process requires is a little bit of time and space for reflection. One of the best examples we can find in the Bible is that of Moses. Before returning to Egypt for his “second half”, he was fine-tuned for forty years. During those forty years he had no idea that God was using those forty years to prepare him for the most important season of his life.

You might be going through a tough time and have no idea why you have to go through such trouble. You cannot do anything to stop things happening outwardly. But you can do something for that which happens inwardly. May that renewal never stop. It doesn’t need much. The only thing that it needs is that little space in your heart which if fine-tuned to God no matter what storms may come you will be renewed each day and will be given wings to fly and soar high up in the sky like an eagle.