Learning to follow (my 7th month in Brisbane)

This month's blog will be very short because I am behind on some school work that I had neglected a bit too much during the Dec holidays.

(If you are wondering, I had a great Christmas and New Year - spending it with Australian families such as my home owners, the Lanes, as well as friends both local and international. Getting back to the rhythm of school work is a tad difficult, but I shall prevail :).

One big idea from the past month is how well do I follow in the footsteps of Jesus in loving people.

Like really truly loving them, despite disappointment, disillusionment, discouragement (any other dis-ses one can think of)

Is it possible to love when we are so imperfect?

Because of the perfect God who first loved us, the answer is Yes.

Because of the perfect God who dwells in us, the answer is Yes.

Because of the perfect God who makes us more than conquerors through His love, the answer is Yes.

I got a picture of following when I was looking at the back "legs" of a caterpillar that I recently adopted.

(haha, so my last blog post was about feet, now it's about legs - you can't say I don't have continuity :)

If you look at the video, the back legs follow where the front "real" legs go... if the back legs tried to go the opposite direction, that would be mighty painful for the caterpillar.

In the same way, I want to follow Jesus... I'm just the back legs (in scientific terms, I'm the proto-legs) and He is the real deal.

I just read online that the protolegs will be absorbed during metamorphosis - I think that's fascinating because an analogy for how we will become fully like Christ when this life is over and we have completely transformed into His likeness.

Don't think it's a coincidence that this verse was used in church yesterday :)

Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.