January 12, 2025
Who do you want to follow? Maybe you have a favourite author, a great mentor at work or a family member who has been a great example to you and who you try to emulate.
We normally choose who we will follow based on their ability to achieve a result.
In 1936 Dale Carnegie wrote the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” it has sold millions of copies. People bought it because Carnegie had been a very effective and successful salesman for Armour and Company.
If you go to the gym and want to find a personal trainer you won’t necessarily pick the trainer with the best knowledge of human anatomy and or sports nutrition you will likely pick the person who has the physique you want to achieve. Their results will be the thing that draws you to take their advice. Mark Rippetoe once said if you have never squatted 600 Lb how can you teach someone else to do it.
When it comes to determining who we will model our lives after we might be tempted to pick a person who has achieved certain levels of earthly success and that is perfectly reasonable if we need to know or achieve something in their field or area of achievement.
As Christians we have set our aim higher than earthly achievement. This is not to say we have no earthly goals or responsibilities it does however mean that we will be going to places that probably won’t feel like the best or most desirable. None the less Jesus says follow me:
I have no place to lay my head, Follow Me;
I am despised and rejected ,Follow Me;
I am humble and lowly of heart, Follow Me;
I will do the will of the father, Follow Me;
I will hurt for others sins, Follow Me;
I will be a Servant to all, Follow Me;
I am going to the sick and dying, Follow Me;
I will preach good news, Follow Me;
I will take the burdens of the weak, Follow Me;
I will invite all men into my Kingdom, Follow Me;
I will teach the ways of God, Follow Me;
I will build my church, Follow Me;
I will carry a cross, Follow Me;
I will lose my life to gain others, Follow Me;
I will rise from Death to life, Follow Me
~ Kevin Cleary