My grandsons, ages 10 and 12, stood on the rock outcropping with me, looking down at the dark water below. I related to them how I swam here as a kid. I encouraged them, “Go ahead and jump in, boys.”
The response was a loud, “No!” They didn’t trust my words.
At sixty-one I had to make the plunge first to convince them it was OK. After that, they followed happily.
It got me to thinking, it wasn’t my words but my actions that would lead them into an uncertain future. How many have gone on before and paved the way for us?
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Give it some thought and make a way for others.
Gary