To Be Like Jesus!

A friend of mine made a comment on Face Book that really made me think. He said, " I wish my friend would see what the love of Jesus Christ has done for me and desire the same things in his life". After I read that post I began to pray for him and ask God to lend my dear friend a hand in this dilemma. As I prayed God comforted me with this thought, "He is just wanting to be like Jesus".

Think about it for a minute, isn't that what Jesus walked this old world to do, He came to show us the love of God and the power that God could have in our lives. To be like Jesus is a lofty goal but is also one that we all should strive for. But it seems to me that there are very few people today that really want to be like Christ. And I have asked my self the question "why" a million times. But in a book that I was reading tonight called "Leaders That Last" I read a statement that brought new understanding to my questioning mind. Gary D. Kimmaman said "To be like Jesus is to be fully human, to live in a real world with real people".

As I read those words I began to realize that this was the reason so many people today don't succeed in being like Jesus, They Don't Want To Be Real. Now I realize that this is not the only reason but I think it could be in the Top #3.

I see so many people in the world today that do there best to hide their real selves and masquerade around like someone there not. They are not really hypocrites, they are just afraid that someone is going to realize they are human. And to admit that we are human is to admit that we have a flawed nature because of sin. It is to admit that we are helpless, outside of the blood of Jesus Christ, to regain the image of the Father that we were created in. To amit we are human is to say that I have fallen short of God's master plan for my life and I do not haver the ability on my own to reach that lofty goal.

You see, God's master plan was not to deliver you and I from our humanity, but he sent His only Son to this world to save our humanity from the cures and chains of sin and spiritual death.

Jesus was able to show us God because He was human, flesh, a walking talking man. He struggled with the will of God in Luke 22:42, He struggled with bouts of feeling helpless in Matt. 27:40, He struggled with the feeling of hurt and loneliness that comes from losing a family member or friend when Lazarus died. But through all His time of humanity, Jesus always held on to the mighty hand of God and came out of the trial a victor.

So how can we be like Jesus and show those around us the power of God in our lives? Let them see we are human, share with them the low times as well as the mountain top experiences. But most important, let them see you holding to God's hand no matter if you are on the highest mountain or in the lowest valley.