CHRIST-LIKE

To be Christ-like, can be understood as being like Christ; and also, as liking Christ. Though both are positive in their outlook, and expressed with a deep respect for the person of Christ; both do not mean the same…
– One is becoming like Christ, in our thoughts, words and deeds.
– While the other is to admire and respect Christ. 
– One is to follow in the footsteps of Christ.
– The other is to have a respectful admiration for Christ.

Only the person who follows Christ, and desires to be Christi-like in his thoughts, words and deeds is a Christian. Jonathan Edwards, expounds this thought much better – “A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.”

The Bible tells us in 1 Peter 2:9-10 that, God called us, out of darkness, into His marvellous light, so that we would show forth, the praises, of Christ our LORD and Redeemer. The apostle John writing in 1 John 2:6 exhorts us – “6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.”

Now, how about us? May the LORD grant us His grace, and help us, to be like Him, in all our ways.