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Conform
Into His Image
President Calvin Coolidge
invited some people from his hometown to dinner at the White House. Since they
did not know how to behave at such an occasion
they thought the best policy
would be just to do what the President did. The time came for serving coffee.
The President poured his coffee into a saucer. As soon as the home folk saw it
they did the same. The next step for the President was to pour some milk and
add a little sugar to the coffee in the saucer. The home folks did the same.
They thought for sure that the next step would be for the President to take the
saucer with the coffee and begin sipping it. But the President didn't do so. He
leaned over
placed the saucer on the floor and called the cat.── Source Unknown.
Children have never been
good at listening to their elders
but they have never failed to imitate them. ── James Baldwin.
When the wife of
missionary Adoniram Judson told him that a newspaper article likened him to
some of the apostles
Judson replied
"I do not want to be like a
Paul...or any mere man. I want to be like Christ...I want to follow Him only
copy His teachings
drink in His Spirit
and place my feet in His
footprints...Oh
to be more like Christ!" ── Source
Unknown.
On a wall near the main
entrance to the Alamo in San Antonio
Texas
is a portrait with the following
inscription: "James Butler Bonham--no picture of him exists. This portrait
is of his nephew
Major James Bonham
deceased
who greatly resembled his
uncle. It is placed here by the family that people may know the appearance of
the man who died for freedom." No literal portrait of Jesus exists either.
But the likeness of the Son who makes us free can be seen in the lives of His
true followers. ── Bill
Morgan.
In Discipleship Journal
Carole Mayhall tells of a woman who went to a diet center to lose weight. The
director took her to a full-length mirror. On it he outlined a figure and told
her
"This is what I want you to be like at the end of the program."
Days of intense dieting and exercise followed
and every week the woman would
stand in front of the mirror
discouraged because her bulging outline didn't
fit the director's ideal. But she kept at it
and finally one day she conformed
to the longed-for image.── Daily
Bread
August 8
1990.