They’re watching …

I love movies.

I prefer to see them at the theater when they open, but I just enjoy the entertainment a good movie provides for a couple of hours.

But of all the films I’ve seen, the one that has most impacted me and returns to memory the most often isn’t something I saw at a theater. Instead, it was a film shown in my third grade class about health.

I remember it clearly … there were the good “organisms” and the “bad germs” and they were battling with each other. It was an all-out war. Talk about an action movie! And it got it’s lesson across to me … wash your hands!

To this day, I wash my hands because of what I saw in that movie!

It’s interesting what it is that we observe that leaves a lasting impact in our lives and motivates a permanent behavior change.

Watching my mother deal with the issues of life, chiefly my abusive father, taught me much about living.

Watching Dr. LeRoy Lawson lead Central Christian Church to mega-church growth taught me a great deal about ministry.

Others have taught me about friendship, psychology, business, writing, or an array of other things about life.

But I’ve never forgotten what an Arkansas country preacher once told me when I was a teenager. He said, “There’s always someone watching your life. You may not know who they are or when they are watching, but there’s always someone watching your life.”

If that is true, what are people going to think by watching your life? What are they going to learn? How are they going to be impacted? How will your life motivate theirs?

“And you yourself must be an example to them by doing good works of every kind. Let everything you do reflect the integrity and seriousness of your teaching,” Titus 2:7.

Scotty