Dec 11 2025 … More Like Jesus …

Dec 11 2025 …  More Like Jesus … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...      and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics, from Zach Williams  singing Less Like Me …  calling on Christians to seek to live and love others to become more like Jesus and less like our human selves. 

Highlight Passage: … Colossians 3:12 … [NLT] … 

12 … Since God chose you to be the holy people He loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to put on the characteristics of Christlikeness.

Highlight Passage in Context:  Colossians 3:12-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul exhorts/encourages fellow Christians to live and become more like Christ.  

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Reference Passage: … John 13:34-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, the night of His arrest in the upper room with His Disciples, washes their feet and commands them to love others like He has shown love to them; … and by doing this, they (we) show that they (we) are disciples of Christ. 

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

… Paul calls on fellow Christians to become living sacrifices, avoiding the ways of the world and following the ways of Christ.   

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

… The Apostle Paul confidently calls on fellow Christians to follow him because Paul knew he was following the ways of Christ.

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

… The Apostle Paul testifies to his choosing to die to self and being transformed to live as Christ lives in him.

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Paul teaches truth that we Christians have been created anew in Christ to carry out His will and follow His ways in carrying out His plans.

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

… The Apostle John shows Christians that they (we) should live as Jesus lived.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author, Alyson Kieda …  USE THS LINK  -   …  related a story about a man jogging down a street in NYC and encountering a man begging … by putting his worn shoes out to beg for money.  The man realized how blessed he was to have good jogging shoes; so he took off his shoes/socks and gave them to the beggar, saying to the man, …  “I’ve been blessed my whole life. God has been very good to me, so I feel like I should bless you too.”

I don’t know about you, my fellow “Christian” readers, but I’m convicted, as I just turned 82, by the linked song and today’s ODB entry that I can be - and should be - doing more to be like Christ as I live in this latter portion of my life.  And so, I’m sharing my thoughts here today and wondering if we ALL could do more, as Zach Williams sings, to be more like Christ and less like me (or you)?   How about you, my dear fellow Christian?

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You …Lord, … for calling me to be more like You.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, … You are helping us all to be more like You today and tomorrow.   … Amen

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