GREAT THINGS ENTERPRISE
CLAUDE BLACK
Mark 11:8
Imitation
Imitation is often an unconscious response to one’s environment. I, like many others, I suspect, have found myself doing something and the realizing that I learned it from someone else—often my father or mother. When I was in college, I had one professor for ten classes. By the time I graduated, I found myself repeating some of his stories, which I still catch myself doing after all these years.
There’s a story about a father who saw his son puffing on an imaginary cigarette, and he decided to stop smoking rather than pass the habit on to his child.
After the disciples threw their garments on the donkey’s back for Jesus’ comfort, Mark wrote, “And many spread their garments in the road, and others spread branches in the road, having cut them from the fields.” (Mark 11:8) Although Mark does not explicitly say that the people along the road were imitating the disciples, the narrative suggests as much.
Like it or not, the adage holds true: “The life I live is the lesson I teach.”
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