July 16, 2025 :… More Like Him Today …

July 16, 2025 :… More Like Him Today  …

Devotional Song ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with Zach Williams  singing… Less Like Me,  calling Christians to become more like Jesus every day.

Highlight Passage:… 1Corinthians 12:2 … [NLT] … 

2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.  

…  Paul calls for fellow Christians to surrender and allow God’s Spirit to transform them (us) into His images.       

           

Highlight Passage (in context); … Romans 12:`1-3  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul calls fellow Christians to become living sacrifices, avoiding the ways of the world and measuring ourselves by obeying God’s word and becoming like Christ.           

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s wisdom, from Solomon, teaching his son (and us) that they (we) must trust in God to lead us in His ways.

Reference Passage: … John 14:15, 21 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus calls on His disciples (that’s us too!) to obey His commands if they (we) say we love Him.  

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

…   The Apostle Paul exhorts fellow Christians to be willing to follow him as he imitates and follows the ways of Christ.

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

… Paul again calls on born-again Christians to imitate Christ in all we think, say, or do in life.    

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 2:3-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul finally calls on fellow Christians to take on the attitude of Christ, loving others as He loved (and loves) us.   

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

… The Apostle John teaches those who say they that they (we) live for Christ to imitate the way HE lived.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Karen Pimpo  … AT THIS LINK      … told of how her dental hygienist taught her that fluoride had been introduce into he water of their city in 1945 and had had a measured positive effect on reducing dental cavities in the region>.   And the ODB author thought that research finding illustrates however what we consume and practice in our lives has a lasting and permanent effect on how we live.  

And if my readers have taken in the linked song and especially God’s word, shared above, I’m praying that we all see that if we report to love Jesus as Lord and Savior, that we are doing what the authors of Scripture (and certainly God’s Spirt) calls us to do by following Christ in our lives.  I come here EVERY morning to let my Lord’s word guide me in my prayers and the way I live.  Are we all imitating Christ with our lives as the Apostles Paul and John did (see 1Cor 11;1 and 1John 2:6),  I pray so!!       

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for leading me to become like You.

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again Lord. …for leading us to become more like You, Lord, today .. and tomorrow!   … Amen

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