BECOMING LIKE HIM

Last week, we looked at the statement, ‘Lord, let me live what you paid for.

We are meant to live from fullness. When we come to Christ, He comes and gives us fullness. We have to learn to live in that fullness.

When we get to heaven, we will have no excuses. The father will just point to Jesus and say In Him I gave you everything to live in fullness on earth. God has never really been bothered by who you are not. He is overjoyed in who he can make you because it doesn't depend on you but on Him. Gideon in Judges is a clear example. Gideon was hiding in a wine press threshing wheat because he was hiding from the enemy who were oppressing the Jewish people. God says the Lord is with you, mighty warrior. Gideon just replied Pardon me, Lord. God was seeing Gideon's potential. Gideon was thinking Excuse me. I'm a nobody. He didn’t look or think he was a mighty man. God ignores him and says Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of the hand of the enemy. Gideon's reply was the same Pardon me, Lord, I’m the least in my family. In other words, you have the wrong person here. Isn’t that what we do? In 2 Peter 1:3-4, “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these, he has given us His very great and precious promises so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires” Evil desires here mean self-centred desires. When we received Christ, we received his divine nature. Christ in us. No excuses. He wants us and expects us to live what he paid for. Do we dare to believe that we can walk in what He paid for to become like him and walk like Him in this life? Let's not sell ourselves short. Surrounding ourselves to Him daily and keep saying Yes to Him. It's learning to die to self-centeredness, which is the key issue. The biggest thing that stops us is that we remain self-centred after we give our lives to Christ. Self has to die. T