“You Look Just Like Your Father”

(This is a repeat from a few years back but is still one of my favorite Father's Day devotionals.)
​          My dad recently passed away. At the viewing at the funeral home there were over an estimated 250 people who came through the line to pay their respects. There was an overflow crowd the next day at the funeral. Of these two groups of people I had at least 150 people tell me that I look exactly like my daddy (father).
          We had a video going that was showing pictures of daddy from the time that he was a little boy until right before he had his stroke and got sick. People kept saying over and over how much I looked like him. One lady even said, “You look just like Hulon Mimbs spit you out of his mouth.” Another person said that I spoke like him and ever acted like him.
          As I thought about this I was honored to look like my daddy. He was a handsome man so I took this as a compliment. Another thing was that it meant that there was no doubt that I was his son and not adopted or some other man was my birth father.
          In considering this I began to hope that someday someone would say that I looked like my Heavenly Father. I pray that my speech and actions will reflect my Heavenly Father and not those of myself or the world. I pray that as people see me and my life they “see” God’s love and character shining through me. I truly want to be a reflection of Him and His loving nature for the whole world to see.
          I can’t help looking and acting like my earthly father because I was born into his family and inherited his looks, features, and nature. I had to be “born again” to get into the family of God. I was born with a sinful nature and had to be adopted into the family of God. But as I put my old sinful nature and selfish person to death I can become a new creation that looks and acts like my Heavenly Father. 
In love with Jesus – Gary Mimbs