While filling up my car a driver on the other side of the pump was also filling his car. When he turned and looked at me I literally gasped. If I had not known Ted Kennedy is dead I would have been sure he was out touring central Massachusetts. If Senator Kennedy had become president they really could have used this man as a double. He even had that very pronounced Bostonian accent. It always takes my breath away for a moment when I see a very close look-alike.
Many years ago I thought I saw my uncle at a Pennsylvania Turnpike rest stop. When I mentioned it my Dad, his brother, my Dad asked, “Why didn’t you talk to him?” Well, I explained, the woman with him wasn’t my aunt, so I knew it wasn’t him. My Dad’s response was, “All the more reason to think it was him.”
I have always thought how incredibly marvelous it would be if I would be taken as a double for Jesus. Since my Arian features would most likely not be close to Jesus’ Semitic features, it would have to be related to mannerisms and behaviors. Acts 4:13 says, “When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.” One cannot spend time with Jesus without being changed. It’s a basic fact of life. Paul referred to it as having the mind of Jesus in us.
What an amazing goal, to think His thoughts and to have His ideas.
Written by Roger Bothwell on June 21, 2010
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