My son will be five years old next June and it is through him that God has given me many lessons. The last days I have noticed in him an insistence on resembling everything to me. I can notice how he tries to imitate me in everything, even in what seems laughable and I say this because I was all my life thin and lately years and married life has led me to increase many pounds to the point that my abdomen is no longer the same and begins to form a kind of mobile pulpit, in a few words: my belly is coming out. And although when I write this it makes me laugh, it's the truth, and even the gym has not worked, but well, what I want to say is that I surprised my son (who is also thin) trying to take out his tummy and tell me: "Look dad, I look like you."
Obviously in that if it does not look like it, but maybe at some point it will come to resemble, but I can notice many things in it. Physically we resemble, in fact he looks a lot like me when I was his age, but I notice in him that he wants to look like me in everything not only physically, he also does it in terms of tastes, which I like to he likes me, I notice that he imitates me in certain reactions, in my way of being, I notice that he repeats what he has heard of me, I notice his insistence on being like me and the truth I do not see it badly because I feel satisfied that in no time I have given you a bad example, but these days when you notice your insistence on resembling me, God has led me recurrently to reflect on whether I am doing the same with Him, that is: Will I be trying insistently to look like Jesus?
Danny Berrios intones a praise from a father who says: "Sir, I want to be like you, because he (your son) wants to be like me." Then it is there when I notice my little Uziel's insistence on resembling me where I am confronted and I ask myself in all sincerity if I am doing something to resemble Jesus.
Most of us want to imitate men or women that we admire, but few of us long to try to look like Jesus every day.
To look like Jesus is to deny ourselves, is to be humble, is to be tame, not always be on the defensive, but to see from God's point of view each case and to take in this way the decisions that we consider Jesus would take.
Jesus told us: "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your souls "Matthew 11:29 (Reina-Valera 1960).
Do we want to look like Jesus ?, then stop fighting for vain things, stop criticizing the sinner and instead look for them to restore them, help the needy and not just the one we love, love our enemies and not just our friends, behave Right in every place and not only where we believe we should do it, let's pray always, let's seek God, let's do his will and not ours and then we will begin to resemble Jesus.
We call ourselves Christians and we do it because our goal is to imitate Jesus, but will it really be our daily goal to be like Jesus?
Today I want to start looking more like Jesus, I want to stop having other futile goals to start doing what I should have done from the beginning: Look like Jesus.
And one day when we look like Jesus we will be able to say with all authority and conviction how the Apostle Paul did it:
"Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ."
1 Corinthians 11: 1 (Reina-Valera 1960)
Let's look every day to be more like Jesus!