Do you have a wallet? I believe that most of you do have it. Does it have a picture/photo pocket? I'm sure it does, and I'm sure you've used it, haven't you? Well, whose photo is the one in your wallet, especially in the front one? I solemnly think that it is someone very important to you, isn't it?
It's a very common thing when someone keeps somebody's picture (or maybe something's picture) inside of his wallet. It probably the picture of his wive, her husband, his family, his children, his girlfriend, or perhaps, his pet, his house, his own picture... Whoever or whatever picture in it, it somehow reflects someone's love for the person/thing in the picture. By doing so, someone also wants to keep connected to the one in the picture, although they are away apart.
Our heart is just like the wallet, we keep important things inside (our treasure, our longing/dreams, our loved ones). Because we always have the wallet with us, we know we can keep our loved ones' picture in it. The question is, whose picture is it?
My friend and teacher once said, "When someone hasn't got a girlfriend, he keeps his family's picture in his wallet. But wait until he gets a girlfriend. I'm sure he'll replace the picture with her girlfriend's (or at least put the old one behind the new one."
Well, it does make sense now. If we think that God is the important one for us, we'll keep His image in our heart. And if someone/something else steals that priority, the Image is replaced. God is no longer the important one, but someone/something else.
We know that God always wants to be the only one for us, but it is our choice to make Him the one or not. If He weren't God of love, I believe that He would force us to make Him the one. But no... He doesn't do it. He gives us a free will to choose Him and the world, because He loves us. Even when we don't choose Him, He waits us to do it, when we have realize His importance in our love. Now, will us keep His picture in our "wallet"?
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