"He gets that from you!". Mandy & I say some form of this expression at least twice a day. "That one's all you right there!". It's as if there's some sort of competition taking place with the winner receiving the secret victory of knowing our children may have their faults, but at least they didn't get it from their mother (I typically lose this battle). I suppose it happens to us all at times; these traits we develop either through genetics or enough time spent with somebody. Adam just came back from spending a week at camp and suddenly everything is SAVAGE! I'm savage, Alex is savage, lunch is savage, fishing is savage...apparently he had a bunk-mate that used the word to mean anything cool. When I was a kid everything was Smurfy, now it's savage. The way we comb our hair or eat pizza (fold or fork?) or the phrases we use...it all comes down to the thousand different things that influence us during each passing minute of the day.
These same ideas of how we become who we are and who people see when they are around us are explored in 1st John 3. A life lived in service of God and in remembrance of His son Jesus Christ, should bring a sense of knowing to those we come into contact with. Love, peace, a desire to do right, and a sense that we are not worth of the sacrifice made on our behalf, should wash out from us whenever we are out in the world. Like the scent from a candle that reminds you of home or the feeling you get when you first meet somebody you instantly know can be depended on, the way we act should create a spark inside those that don't know Him. And when the time has come for us to part ways and let life take us where it may, we should all be so lucky to be remembered by those we knew as "Just like his/her Father".
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