Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Our Reading, our reading titled, Like Our Great

Teacher, was written by Marvin Williams. In a viral video, a three-year-old white-belt karate

student, imitated her instructor.

With passion and conviction, the little girl said the student creed with her leader.

Then, with poise and attentiveness, the little ball of cuteness and energy,

imitated everything her teacher said and did.

At least she did a pretty good job. In Luke chapter six, Jesus once said,

the student is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher.

He told his disciples that to imitate him included being generous, loving, non-judgmental, and discerning about whom they followed.

Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit? His disciples needed to discern that

this standard disqualified the Pharisees, who were blind guides, leading people to disaster.

And they needed to grasp the importance of following their teacher.

Thus, the aim of Christ's disciples was to become like Jesus himself.

So it was important for them to pay careful attention to Christ's instruction about generosity and love

and apply it. As believers striving to imitate Jesus today, let's give our lives over to our

master teacher so we can become like him in knowledge, wisdom, and behavior. He alone can help us reflect his

generous, loving ways. Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Luke

Chapter 6, verses 37 through 42 do not judge and you will not be judged do not condemn and you will not be condemned forgive and you will be forgiven give and it will be given to you a good good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over,

will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

He also told them this parable. Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit? The student is not above the teacher,

but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher. Why do you look at the speck of

sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye.

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