When I went off to college, Mom gave me a copy of Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ. For many years this was the only Christian book, other the the Bible that I owned. Although I wish I could say that I drank in the collected wisdom of Thomas a Kempis, the reality is that I paged through.. I meandered among.. and sampled the wisdom rooted in a verse from 1 Corinthians 11:1
Imitate me... as I imitate ChristPaul exhorts us (just as Mom did) to be just like Jesus... and just in case we are wont to dismiss the idea as impossible since Jesus was the Son of God after all, Paul reminds us that we need to find another excuse, because he is imitating Christ... so we can too. What are we waiting for?
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