Imitate Jesus

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 28th of August, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the 1 Corinthians 11:1. Paul says:

“Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.” 

Wow, there is a challenge for us! It’s no good shouting at your tractor driver because he is ploughing in the wrong gear, and he is wasting diesel as the black smoke goes out of the exhaust pipe. Stop him at at the headland, ask him to move over, jump on the tractor and show him how to do it and he will not argue with you. I remember years ago, buying a beautiful Simmentaler bull from a very, very well-established stockman. His name was Cedric Taylor. There was a group of young guys trying to help me, and we were trying to load this huge one-ton Simmentaler bull onto my truck, and he would just not go on, and we were trying everything, and then I heard the old man say, “Excuse me, can you just move over a bit?” And then he walked up to that bull and he put his big hand on the middle of the back of that big bull, and said, “Come on boy, let’s walk onto the truck’, and that big bull walked straight onto that truck. 

You see, we need to imitate Jesus because He is the only one that can help us. Now that old gentleman didn’t have to tell me that he was a stockman, I saw it with my own eyes and I have never forgotten it. John, the apostle, the legend goes that when he was a very old man, he was the last of the disciples to die, they used to carry him in on a bed, to the meetings that he had, and he would always say, “Little children, love one another.” And they would say to each other and to John, “But John, why do you always tell us that?” And with tears in his eyes he would say, “Because that’s what the Master always told us to do.”

1 John 4:8 says very clearly that:

“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

Today, let’s go out and imitate our beloved Lord Jesus. 
God bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.