Discipleship is Imitation

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Who are you trying to be like? Are you imitating someone? Who do you pattern your life after?

Following Jesus is about doing what he does. Jesus followers avoid evil and do the good that Jesus has modeled.

Discipleship is imitation.

We can be imitators of evil, or we can be imitators of good.

In his third letter, the Apostle John wrote, “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).

If we are imitators of evil, we do not know God, and we are becoming the evil we imitate.

When we imitate God’s goodness, we are doing the good God does, and we are becoming like the good God we are imitating.

May we be imitators of God by doing the good that is from God, so that we may be more and more like him.

A Collect for Joseph, Husband of the Virgin Mary and Guardian of Jesus: “O God, who from the family of your servant David raised up Joseph to be the guardian of your incarnate Son and the husband of his virgin mother: Give us grace to imitate his uprightness of life and his obedience to your commands; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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