TO BE LIKE JESUS

We as Christians, many times, look upon, “TO BE LIKE JESUS” more from a sentimental and emotional perspective, than what it actually means. *To be like Jesus, is to THINK, SPEAK and LIVE like Jesus did.*
– “To be like Jesus, To be like Jesus, All I ask, to be like Him. All thru life’s journey from earth to glory, All I ask, to be like Him.”
– “18 But we all…are being transformed into the same image [of GOD] from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” – 2 Corinthians 3:18

To live like Jesus did, does not mean, we will be donning the role of the Messiah. No, not at all. Jesus, had done all that needs to be done about the “Messiah” part. There is nothing else left to be done. What we are called to, as Christians, is to be the imitators of Jesus, the ambassadors of Christ and His disciples, who will proclaim the Good News though our words and deeds.

The process of “Being Like Jesus” is to be precisely, like Jesus. Let us see what the Bible talks about Jesus…
– “2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.”
– “6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. 9 And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.”
– “10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.” – Isaiah 53:2-12

When we look at the life of Jesus in the gospels, we see, Jesus had a particular life. This life made Jesus go through a Wilderness, a Gethsemane, a Judas, a Cross…Sufferings, Insults, Taunts, Tears, Pain and Agony. We as His disciples, are to expect such a life. We are called to the same life as Jesus did.

May the LORD help us to be properly prepared for the life, that our LORD is calling us to. May we not be distracted with anything. May we faithfully and obediently walk as the LORD leads…even if it is the fire or a storm…the LORD will take care. Let us learn to walk as the Shepherd leads. Even so the LORD help us.