We’ve been looking at Luke 6:40, and seeing that we are to be like our teacher. Here’s a devotional poem from Christ-following “Champaign” singer Rena Himick seeing the same. It’s called “Mildly Famous.”

I was mildly famous at best,
but still there were
gold and platinum records,
and videos on MTV;
music shows in London,
and Paris, and Amsterdam;
Dick Clark’s Bandstand in LA,
and Solid Gold, and Soul Train;
touring buses, limos, lights,
and champagne at every stop.

So loved, faux loved,
believe me when I say,
fame is an empty box,
covered in glitter and gloss;
those gold and platinum records,
painted plastic props;
the applause, the approval,
comes and goes, sharp removal,
and you remain yourself,
still adrift in need of saving,
still indeed for purpose craving.

Not until I met the King
did life amount to anything;
His love, His approval,
slowly surely sin’s removal;
His Name above all names!
His Cross to bury all my shame!
I am so loved, so loved,
believe me when I say
as a servant of the King,
to put on Christ, Lord Jesus,
to be made like Him indeed,
that’s all the fame we’ll ever need.

Devotional poem © 2016 Rena Himick. Used with permission.

Jesus said, “Everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher” — Luke 6:40

Christlikeness is key
to Christianity —
we are to be
like Our Teacher.
As C. S. Lewis,
that old don,
said while ’dressing
in his Mere:

“‘Putting on Christ’ . . .
is not one among
many jobs
a Christian has to do;
and it is not
a sort of special exercise
for the top class.
It is the whole of Christianity.
Christianity offers
nothing else at all.“

Brothers, sisters,
may Jesus be our true teacher,
may He be the clothes we wear,
may His Spirit metamorph us,
may Christlikeness be our prayer.

Devotional poem © 2016 Michael Himick. Used with permission.