This is Posh and
this is our story……
I have a funny
story to tell you. I’ll tell it just like it was told to me by the director of
the English program at the school where Daysi and I taught while in Thailand.
One day after teaching, Nong, the English director, came up to us and introduced us to Posh, a student about 10 or 11 years old. She told us that this boy was at home cutting the bangs of his hair really, really, short. Also, He was pulling his hair out from the back top part of his head! What??!! OUCH!! True story. Nong is laughing as she’s sharing this story with us. She proceeds to tell us that Posh’s mom caught him with scissors in hand and asked him, in a very surprised voice, “What in the world are you doing?” Posh simply responds with this, “I want to look like teacher Mike!!” If you haven’t seen me before, go to my FaceBook page and take a look. You’ll notice that I really don’t have a lot of hair and I’m pretty much bald on top, near the back of my head, back then, now I’m totally bald! So as Nong continues with the story, still laughing, she says the boy’s mom then asks, “Who is teacher Mike? Is he a cartoon character?!” That’s when Daysi and I lost it laughing. I told Posh, “No don’t do that. You have a lot of hair and there’s no need to cut it or pull it out to look like teacher Mike.” Nong then tells us that Posh, not his real name but a nickname, really loves teacher Mike. Out of all his classes it’s teacher Mike’s class that he loves and pays attention to the most. She said that because he loves teacher Mike, he wanted to look like him and be with him in ALL his classes. WOW!!! Now, why tell this story? What’s the point of telling? Is it to make myself look good and hopefully receive accolades from people? Is this the purpose? No, not at all! The reason I’m sharing this story is this. Not long after the director shared it with us, this thought came to me. Is that the attitude we as Christians, Christ followers, have with our Teacher? Do we love our Teacher so much that we would want to look like Him? The bible tells us we are to be imitators of Christ. (Eph 5:1) What does that mean? It means to copy Him, to follow His example. It means cutting our bangs, pulling our hair out because we love Jesus so much we want to “look” like Him. We want to reflect His image to the world around us.
I was totally
humbled by what Posh did, wanting to look like me. It touched me in a way that
made me think of my own walk with Christ. Am I willing to cut my bangs, pull my
hair out so that the world around me will see Christ……..in me?
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