The
readings this week present us with the behaviours that we as Christ followers
are to emulate.
Our model
is Jesus Christ both in his spirituality and in his humanity.
Just as
infants and children imitate their parents and in so doing learn to eat, walk,
sing, speak, work, … in short learn to survive and live with others, so we are to
imitate Jesus as we learn to live through faith and worship.
And just
as children imitating the adults in their world believe they have learned
enough go to work with them, to step into the adult world, Proverbs 2:6 cautions us against
believing ourselves to have achieved the mark, as believing our lives to be so
Christ like as to sit at his right hand.
“Put not
yourselves forward in the presence of the King.
And stand not in the place of great men” because we will find ourselves
being sent back to the children’s table to keep on learning.
What is
this life we are to imitate?
It is a
life lived through love, service, dedication, selflessness, and justice.
It is a
spiritual path of listening in silence for God to speak, of wandering in the wilderness
with only God to sustain.
It is a
life dedicated to other’s even unto death.
It is
doing all of this everyday of our lives, from the time we wake to the time we
sleep.
It is more
than Sunday worship, volunteering on Saturday.
It is
imitating Christ in how you do your laundry, shop for your groceries, how you
plan for your retirement, the TV shows you watch and the books your read and so much more.
Most
importantly it is about “loving each other as brothers and sisters”
Hebrews 13:8
Grandma
Snyder
©2013-2016
twosnydergirls
Lectionary
Readings for this post Proverbs 25:6-7, Psalm 112, Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Luke
14: 1, 7-14.
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