"In all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works..." (Titus 2:7)

The story is told of a TV repairman who didn't like to think about his job when he came home. As a result, he never bothered to properly install the TV antenna on the top of his house or fix it when one arm broke in a windstorm. One day, a new family moved in next door, and the owner went up on his roof to install an antenna. Knowing that his neighbor was a TV repairman, he put his up exactly the same way and turned his antenna to face in the same direction as his neighbor's. Then, after studying his neighbor's antenna for a while, he reached up and broke one arm off his new antenna! (From 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, p. 130)

Whether we realize it or not, we all are leaving an example, whether good or bad, to those about us. Let us show ourselves to be a pattern of good works.