Mimicking our idols, leaders, people we look up to, people who have captured our imagination. It’s easy to see the patterns of behavior in a child, he sees a super hero in a movie and then a few days later, they’re prancing around the house as their new character.
We are finite creatures endowed with a beginner’s set of infinite qualities. We can vision beyond ourselves something different, often something greater, yet we are limited. We are inspirable and have a sense of things greater than ourselves because we are given the nature of the Creator.
For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well. – Psalm 139: 13-14
Essential to our beliefs of the truth, as Christians, we understand we are also born into sin, yet we have faith In the truth of eternal salvation where even our greatest hopes on earth are exceeded and continually satisfied in the direct presence of a Holy, omnipotent and omniscient God.
Therefore, we get glimpses, and those glimpses can be powerful of what is possible through our visions. We see evidence of how great God can empower in the creative genius and intellectual power of people who are responsible for incredible things.
Yet everyone falls short of the glory of God and the manifestation of powers as we all struggle with human limitation and sin.
In the process of our visions for our lives we are often attracted to those whom we view as remarkably capable. Many of those characteristics are we not only attracted to, some we dare to, consciously or unconsciously mimic. Like the child who wants to be a real cowboy or even a toy cowboy, like the adult who desires power, fame, riches, or even to be a benefactor to the poor and needy, or the inspiration for a generation. We are inspired by greatness. We are created in the image of a great, Great, GREAT GOD.
When we are inspired by those characteristics that are true to God, we ascend beyond common Grace, we can be used for even greater purpose of God and the establishment of Godly order. Order can have dark connotations in human history, only because some may only see order as human freedom restricted or the order dictated by tyrants, when the opposite is true with Godly order. It is through God’s order where the human soul flourishes in the eternal hope and love of God. Order in the home that is founded in love is perhaps that greatest example of order in a Godly society.
We see it over and over, the fulfillment of worldly freedom to its extreme leads to unfulfillment. It becomes empty, void and a band-aid to the blindness to Truth.
When we are inspired by those self-serving, immoral, and anti-God characteristics that are found in satan, we descend, despite God’s common grace, into an instrument of terror, evil and the destruction of order.
Order and disorder, it’s a bit of a Yin and Yang concept, but these are not simply the forces of nature’s change, as the forever continual, cyclical, repeatable nature of eastern philosophy. While the cyclical nature of life is real, most obviously the changing of the seasons and the predictability of tides, these are all empirical observations made over time.
In the Bible, we are introduced to the Creator Himself, a supernatural being who has a triune nature we understand and know as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Within the nature of God are the perfection of the qualities we enjoy as humans, though in our mortal lives, as Ihad mentioned,we can only observe glimpses of.
Integral to our lives as humans is our ability to choose, this we have come to understand that is the nature of love itself. Love cannot be forced upon, it is a choice. To use an extreme example, that is why rape is not love. We cannot force someone to love us, but we often experience the fact that we respond to the love of others, we in turn love them, not because we loved them first but because they loved is first. That is true to God’s love. He is in fact love in pure form.
Though we have freedom to choose and often believe in our autonomy, we with humility, give honor to God’s sovereign nature. God’s sovereign nature is transcends human autonomy, and, also satan’s personal quest to be anti-God.
In our efforts to mimic impressive role models, humans can go down two basic roads, towards God’s grace or God’s justice. A third would be indifference, but that becomes part of the wide road to destruction in God’s eternal plan. In other words, to not love is to turn away or to be indifferent.
We are wired to worship. In that truth we find ourselves, often like a copy cat, mimicking those we aspire to become more like.
Although the only one worthy of worship is God, this does not mean we cannot appreciate and respect those who exhibit the glory of God, or rather, are channels for God’s glory. What this does underly is the importance of holding on to God as the primary source of truth and character, not unlike our child-like impulse to become the heroes we see in life. We want and need the compass guidance of a holy, righteous and sovereign God. There is no greater entity we should place our trust in and whom we ultimately choose to model with our unique gifts and talents.
God is sovereign and He has a plan, and we all take part in it. The greatest of His plans is victory over death.
Christ made it so that that victory becomes evidenced based truth. Much of the evidence is provided through prophecy, many were fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ. Christ sacrificed himself by becoming fully man, a sinless man, who chose to give up His life for us, because that is what love requires, self-sacrifice and what justice for sin requires, death.
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,4 who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. – Galatians 1:3-5
Faith in Christ is not meant to be a blind faith, but many people are blinded by lies not come to have faith in Christ.
Do you understand that? Christians are often blamed that their faith is blind. On the contrary, it is not a blind faith. With the saving grace of God, truth is revealed and we are no longer blind. It is a lie of satan and the world that you are not blind when you do not understand the truth in God.
3And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see – John 9:39
“I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” – Luke 5:32
“There is none righteous, not even one;
11 There is none who understands,
There is none who seeks for God – Romans 3:10-11
Not having a relationship with the sovereign God of Creation and Salvation is true blindness.
Form the famous hymn Amazing Grace, “I was blind but now I see…”
In our desire to model ourselves after others, I pray that you copy the one who is also the only one worthy of worship, who leads his followers to eternal life and through whom the full glories of God are revealed.
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” – John 13:34-35
For a one minute explanation of the Gospel from the late Pastor John MacArthur, watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCP9UcC7BzE
For a review of the Ten Commandments: https://www.challenyee.com/the-ten-commandments/
All quoted excerpts have footnotes removed, usually from Legacy Standard Bible (LSB), sometimes from New International Version (NIV), on rare occasion the Amplified Bible (AMP).
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