Another great post from Jamie

This was so good, I wanted to share with you all. My cousin, Jamie Downing, wrote this.


Saturday, December 6, 2008

The Imitator

Isaak likes to set the table, because that's what he sees the rest of us do. When the girls sit down at the school table to do schoolwork, Isaak climbs up into a chair and sits down to color. If someone is reading a book, he goes and gets one of his books to look at. Last week, he opened the door to the garage, just like everyone else is capable of doing. He's seen us go down the stairs sliding our hands along the banister, so when he scoots down the stairs (backwards), he slides his hand along the baseboard, just like the people he admires most!


As I watched him navigate down the stairs the other day, Ephesians 5:1 popped into my head. (OK, the verse popped into my head; I had to go look up the reference!) "Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children."

Isaak is always watching us, the big people in his life. He sees how we do things, and how we say things. He is learning from our examples! How much more should we, then, be imitating God!

Isaak has learned so much already from us, and now I am learning from his example. Imitating God is not a once-in-a-while deal, or a when-I-feel-like-it kind of thing. It is a watch-Him-constantly and always-do-our-best-to-copy-Him in every area of our lives kind of thing!

And it's so simple, a 19-month-old can do it! :)