Once a year I try to read through a little book called “The Valley of Vision.” The book contains the prayers and devotions of great people of God, such as Thomas Watson, John Bunyon, Isaac Watts, David Brainerd, Charles Spurgeon, and others. I love the perspective of these Pilgrims!
As what often happens, I’ll come across a portion of a devotion that stops me in my tracks and revs up my brain. Last week it was, “May I never make the multitudes my model.”
To model someone means to imitate their behavior, attitudes, or actions. It means striving to adopt their way of thinking or the way they approach life. As Christians we are not to model the multitudes. As Christians we are instructed to follow the example of Paul as he follows the example of Christ. (1Corinthians 11:1)
To model Jesus is to strive to imitate His character, love, humility, and service. It means to incorporate all He is in our daily lives. We are to follow the way He set for us in how we think, speak, and act.
Too many in our culture model the multitudes. They want to do what everyone else is doing, and often what everyone else is doing is far from Christlike. Let us “never make the multitudes [our] model.”
Amen & Amen