Devotions; Defeating the Destroyer

Day 104

You become like what you follow, which is great when you're following God and He is really where most of your energy goes into following. However often our priorities get jumbled and we start following something else even if we don't realize it. It's easy to try and act like someone famous or someone you see everyday and admire. Maybe you try to act like a book character or someone from a movie. You start to become like those people which might not seem like a bad thing, who wouldn't to start acting like that one really popular guy or that one really successful girl. It's good to have role models and if that's who that person is for you, someone who is a good example and leads you closer to God. Having a positive role model is good but it's not the same as following God directly.  You also want to make sure that your role model is a good person.  If you are following a bad example it can lead you to do bad things and start to pull you away from God.  Your biggest role model should always be Jesus because He was the ultimate role model who made the ultimate sacrifice to help people that killed Him.