Yesterday was a good day. I held my son throughout most of worship service in the morning. He just sat there and stared at me for the whole time. Then, in the evening, I held him for a long time again, and again, he stared at me. But, the best part was when i would smile at him, then he’d smile back. I stuck out my tongue and rolled it, and he stuck out his at me. Then I smiled at him, and he smiled right back again. It’s fun to see a little one copy the person they are looking at. I love you, Caleb.
It reminds me of how we need to be with our heavenly Father, imitating Him as he looks down at us. That is the ideal pursuit of every Christian. There are a lot of people proclaiming to be Christians out there, but they turn around and kill your spirit with the things they do, say, or believe to be the Word of God. So many non-Christians see this and think we are all the same. They don’t see the man who goes and prays over anyone and everyone in an ER or terminally ill center. They don’t see the children of God going out to the nations, helping those struggling, healing the sick, restoring sight to the blind, and yes, even raising the dead! All they see are the hypocrites, the “religious right”, the “better than you” people who work really hard to please God.
Wouldn’t it be better to just show them all the love of God? The love that is still, to this day, so strong that he sent and watched his son, Jesus, get tortured and executed by Roman death dealers, just so that you could proclaim yourself as a son or daughter of God through grace, mercy, faith and the sacrifice of Jesus over 2,000 years ago. He did that for all of us because He does love us. He did that because He longs for us to be with him after this miserable existence on earth we call a life. He gave us the perfect example of who we need to imitate when we look up, helpless, but secure, in our Father’s arms. Be the love of God and the image of Christ to those around you so that they can see who and what God is really about.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” — John 14:6 (NIV)
