What is that?  O.K., it’s not a box of  Lego made of Tupperware.  I should make you look it up...but I’ll have mercy and enlighten you, since I just learned the word myself.

A hint--hot metal was poured into a tupos(Greek) so the same image could be formed repeatedly.  You are so right-- a mold.  Not the mold in the back of my fridge, but a mold, as in an example or a pattern.

We really don’t have a choice about being a tupos.  You do have a choice about what kind of tupos you are.  Whether we are listening to a lunchtime conversation at work, standing in line for groceries, or hosting a sleep-over for our kid, we are an example.  Someone is watching to see how we act or react.  Sometimes it’s not a pretty sight.

Have you memorized the list in 1 Timothy 4:13?  Paul gives us some guidelines to follow there:

     “Let no man despise thy youth (insert your age here); but be thou an example of the believers

            -in word (ouch!),

            -in conversation (conduct),

            -in charity,

            -in spirit (attitude-- another ouch),

            -in faith,

            -in purity,”

Would I really want someone to be just like me?  Maybe it’s time for a mold adjustment.

(You won’t tell anyone about my fridge, will you?)