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Get your act together! (2)
'Be an example... in the way you live' 1 TIMOTHY 4:12
Heard of Nanny McPhee? You may have seen the film or maybe it's not your cuppa tea? But this story is able to give us a good picture, which can encourage us to,
'Be an example...in the way you live.' Seven children without a mum are now nannyless for the 17th time, driving their poor dad to despair! But all is about to change as Nanny McPhee walks into their life. She arrives, hunched over, her face disfigured so bad that she's never going to win any beauty competitions. The children do their worst, hoping to send her packing. But she doesn't leave! She stays showing them the right way to live and as time goes on, the children begin to behave.
What's so cool about this story is that the more the children do the right thing the more beautiful Nanny McPhee becomes. She straightens up, warts vanish and blotches disappear from her face. Their behaviour affects her beauty. At the end of the film Nanny McPhee looks like a totally different person, certainly more appealing to the eye. When we don't 'get our act together' as a Christian we make Jesus look ugly. When we act in the wrong way we don't show Jesus in all His beauty; we give people an uglier version of whom He really is. Let Jesus be seen as He really is through 'being an example...in the way you live.'
written by Bob Gass
'Be an example... in the way you live' 1 TIMOTHY 4:12
Heard of Nanny McPhee? You may have seen the film or maybe it's not your cuppa tea? But this story is able to give us a good picture, which can encourage us to,
'Be an example...in the way you live.' Seven children without a mum are now nannyless for the 17th time, driving their poor dad to despair! But all is about to change as Nanny McPhee walks into their life. She arrives, hunched over, her face disfigured so bad that she's never going to win any beauty competitions. The children do their worst, hoping to send her packing. But she doesn't leave! She stays showing them the right way to live and as time goes on, the children begin to behave.
What's so cool about this story is that the more the children do the right thing the more beautiful Nanny McPhee becomes. She straightens up, warts vanish and blotches disappear from her face. Their behaviour affects her beauty. At the end of the film Nanny McPhee looks like a totally different person, certainly more appealing to the eye. When we don't 'get our act together' as a Christian we make Jesus look ugly. When we act in the wrong way we don't show Jesus in all His beauty; we give people an uglier version of whom He really is. Let Jesus be seen as He really is through 'being an example...in the way you live.'
written by Bob Gass
