It usually takes a long hard look in the mirror to see how cold, calloused, and bad we act sometimes. But when we do stop and see, we rmay even realize that our lives are actually nothing more than “monkey see, monkey do.”
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God. (3 John 1:11 ESV)
It’s so easy to be bad. In fact, it’s so easy to be bad that we don’t even realize we’re being bad. Sometimes we actually do not know how bad we are acting out until we see the same behaviors in animals at the zoo. I was watching a clip on youtube and it was off a monkey flinging poo at people in a zoo.
I laughed outloud for a moment and realized that sometimes I fling poo at other people too. Not actual poo, but metaphoric poo, poo like attitude at work, at home, at people who are looking at me too. If you are anything like me and aren’t self aware enough in the present to know why you do and behave certain ways, you need to look at what you do and not ask why you do it, but rather, “who did I learn that from” and “is it good?”
I want us to try something this week: Stop reacting the way we would normally react to things.
Jesus walked and lived on this Earth yet remained blameless. The Apostle John asks us to imitate good, and Jesus is good; and so we should behave like him? Step back, and react the way Jesus would react to a similar situation because we have an excellent model to imitate. Don’t be a poo flinger; instead be good.
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