...so wrote Charles Caleb Cotton in his work ‘Many Things in Few Words.’, circa 1820. Many others have expressed similar sentiments. Imitation can however have both good and negative results.
Take commerce for example, a product may be so good that other manufacturers will seek to copy it in order to capture a share of the market. That imitation often extends to the way a product is packaged and marketed, even the position it occupies on the supermarket shelves. One of our leading brands of breakfast cereal has countered such tricks with the slogan ‘If it doesn’t say Kellogg on the box, it’s not Kellogg in the box’. What a challenge for all who label themselves Christian - is Christ dwelling within?
What does the Bible say about imitation? Paul writing to the Corinthian church urged them to imitate him 1COR 4:16. A brave almost arrogant call, but Paul himself was also imitating someone else and reveals who in 1COR 11:1 where again he calls on the Corinthians to imitate him, in the same manner that he imitates Christ. Then in HEB 6:12 we find we are to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. That is those who have persevered, those who have finished the course 2TIM 4:7. Theirs has been a successful life, their imitation of Christ complete.
To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus,
All I ask, to be like Him,
All through life's journey, from earth to glory.
All I ask, to be like Him
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