"I Sound Just Like Them, Don't I?"

While driving in the car today, Anna Clair asked me to put one of her CDs in the player. It is one of those "girly" CDs (Hillary Duff or someone like her) All I know is that it has been cleared by Momma. Anyway she started singing away full-voiced on one of the songs and after the first couple of lines she said, "I sound just like them, don't I?" I replied, "Yes you sure do!" And then I thought to myself, "The same way I sound like when I sing along with Johnny Cash. 'I fell into a burning ring of fire...'" Oh the curse of a baritone voice. It's kind of like being barely 5'10".

I started thinking about that as we finished the drive home. Wouldn't it be great if all Christians could say, "Hey, I had compassion on that person just like Jesus did." Or, "My faith is as strong as Paul's." What if we all made the strongest effort to serve like we should? What if we all strove to imitate Jesus in everything? What effect would that have on our lives, our family, our church, our community, our world? Paul said that very thing in 1 Corinthians 11:1, "Imitate me just as I imitate Christ."

Let's endeavor to attain the character traits needed to make an impact on our world. Let's help each other develop them as well.