Exemplify: To show by example

What do you EXEMPLIFY?

health and fitness
creativity
financial responsibility
loving parent
punctuality
tardiness
responsibility
kindness
rudeness
efficiency
selflessness
organization
empathy
good listener
selfishness
kind heartedness
forgetfulness
humor

Everyday we are EXAMPLES for those around us, whether we realize folks are watching us or not. Our words and actions EXEMPLIFY those things that are important or unimportant in our lives.

My friend, Lisa, told me that she was reflecting on a question that her pastor put to the congregation during his Sunday sermon. The pastor asked “What do you live for?” Lisa said she pondered that question for a while. Finally, she realized that what she really wanted was to be a positive EXAMPLE for others. Lisa shared that she was focused on making good choices in her life and that by demonstrating those choices through her daily actions, others would be able to see her as a positive EXAMPLE.

Isn’t that what we’ve been called to do? Imagine if others looked at our daily lives, and through us, they saw Christ. Wouldn’t that be an amazing thing to EXEMPLIFY?

“Follow my EXAMPLE, as I follow the EXAMPLE of Christ.”- 1 Corinthians 11:1