Aug 27, 2024 … More Like Jesus

Aug 27, 2024 … More Like Jesus 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   to hear Zach Williams, with music and lyrics, singing Less Like Me, praying in song to become more like Jesus day-by-day and less like himself. 

Are we jusst blending in? ... 

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Highlight Passage: … John 17:16 [NLT] … 

<i>   16 They do not belong to this world any more than I do.  </i>

…  Jesus declares - and prays - that His disciples become more Christlike and less like the world.                                         

    

Highlight Passage (in context): … John 17:6-17 NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus prays that God take His disciples out of the world to become holy like God is holy.        

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 139:23-24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… King David song/prayer for God to purge him from anything that does not look like God.         

Reference Passage: … Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul begs for Christians to become less like the world and more like Christ.                         

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 11:1-2  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Paull expresses his joy that fellow Christians are doing al they can to imitate Christ just as he (Paul) strives to imitate Jesus.        

Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… Paul shows fellow Christians that he had been transformed into Christlikeness by His faith in Jesus as The Christ.  

Reference Passage: … Philippians 1:6  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… Paul also confidently shows fellow Christians that we, as born again Christians, are being made over - by God’s Spirit - into the image of Christ.   

Reference Passage: … 1John 2:5-6  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… The Apostle John teaches truth to fellow Christians that those who obey God’s word show their love of The Lord by living as Christ lived.     

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Xochitl Dixon -  AT THIS LINK  -  showed how God created the Great Gray Owl to be able to camouflage himself to blend into the foliage of the trees (see photo).   But as any of my readers can take from the linked song and from God’s word posted above, we Christians are called to separate ourselves from becoming like the word and to do all we can to become and behave more like Jesus in the world.  

The question becomes … <b>”How’re we doing?”</b>  As Zach Williams sings in the linked song, are we doing all we can to be more like Jesus and less like the world?  Or, like the Great Gray Owl, are we just blending in and camouflaging ourselves into the world’s ways.  I’m praying today, in the Spirit of what Zach Williams sings and God’s word teaches, that we Christians <b>“come out”</b> and be noticed as Christlike witnesses with our lives, … surrendered to being like Christ … say-by-day-by-day.                 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for  helping me show myself as Your likeness today … and tomorrow.              

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me to do all we can to be noticed as Your likeness, Lord, today.  …  Amen

 

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