We saw a Hollywood friend...
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We saw a Hollywood friend while watching a television feature film. He portrayed a
highway patrol officer. My wife noticed him first. "I could tell him by his walk," she said.
She's good at identifying people by their stride; she spotted our son-in-law from a block
away the next day as he crossed a street.
Like a fingerprint, each of us has a distinct walk, and a voice like no other person. We're made to be special. Too many of us waste money and time trying to look and act like others. It seems cool. It's what most people do. But when we mimic others, we lose our own precious and special identity. We miss what makes us valuable and unique. We become as different as a breadcrumb.
Only one thing can make us special. Few people discover what it is. We attain it by following someone else's pattern all right, but it's that of Jesus. We treat people as Jesus did, and behave as he did. When we model our lives after him, he makes our unique walk, voice, and other characteristics attractive and memorable. He alone can make us into what we were born to be. Following him we become truly distinctive, not tacky imitations. He made us special -- "to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God." Mimicking others we're destined for "crumbdom."
Like a fingerprint, each of us has a distinct walk, and a voice like no other person. We're made to be special. Too many of us waste money and time trying to look and act like others. It seems cool. It's what most people do. But when we mimic others, we lose our own precious and special identity. We miss what makes us valuable and unique. We become as different as a breadcrumb.
Only one thing can make us special. Few people discover what it is. We attain it by following someone else's pattern all right, but it's that of Jesus. We treat people as Jesus did, and behave as he did. When we model our lives after him, he makes our unique walk, voice, and other characteristics attractive and memorable. He alone can make us into what we were born to be. Following him we become truly distinctive, not tacky imitations. He made us special -- "to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God." Mimicking others we're destined for "crumbdom."
