How is Christ like photoshop?

Yes, you read that right! I asked, how is Christ like photoshop? An interesting question brought up by a friend this morning! Then I shared this thought with my husband and he added it to his sermon this morning!

Yes, this is me beside one of the Cowboy exhibits at the Texas State Fair last October. My friend, Ellie, thought it would be funny to photoshop my head onto the torso of this young, toned Cowboy cheerleader silhoutte! Thanks Ellie! It was cute and funny and such a good analogy for how Christ is like photoshop! How you say? Well, Romans 3:11-12 says, "there is no one righteous, no not one..." We are NOT perfect and God demands perfection. So the problem is how do we achieve perfection to please God and to get into heaven? Well, yes, Romans 3:21-26 goes on to say we can be "justified by Grace!..." Whew... what a relief! What a blessing! How wonderful! Even though we are not perfect, all we have to do is accept Christ's gift to us, his offer to pay the price for our sins, and all we have to do is accept that free gift! Then when God looks at us and judges us and how good we are and have been He sees us THROUGH Christ!! Isn't that amazing! Just like photoshop but for real! God sees Jesus because He paid the price and saved us from the punishment we deserve. He perfected us when we accepted Him as our Savior!

Now THAT is real and not a facade or a photoshopped image of what is not really existent. Jesus is our defender when we stand to be judged before God and because of Jesus God sees us through Christ! Christ as our filter, our perfector, our finisher, our salvation, our air brush, our redeemer is how Christ is like photoshop but even better!