If you were to reflect on your life up ’til now, would you say you are proud of who you’ve become? Is who you are now the person you want to be? I’m not referring to whether you have the job, family or popularity that you’ve been striving for. I’m talking about your inward man or woman; who you are as a person. I would guess that for most of us, the answer would be “no, we are not the person we’d like to be”. The first step in taking the journey of reinventing or modifying yourself is to consider who want to be like. Who do you currently respect? Who do you want to emulate? My hope is that your answer is Jesus. He is our teacher and our master. He modeled how we are to behave, how we are to think and how we are to live. None of us will be carbon copies of Jesus, but we can take what we know about him and pattern our lives accordingly. We can choose today, and make efforts tomorrow, to be like him. Jesus said in Matthew, chapter 10, verses 24 and 25:
“The student is not above the teacher, nor the servant above his master. It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!”
Who is the head of your household? It is typically the father who sets the pace in most homes. But each and every one of us can decide which teacher and master to follow. Even if Jesus isn’t modeled by those in your house, you can still take on his likeness in your life and your heart. So, who do you want to be? Who is your role model? Jesus said that, “it is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters.” I hope and pray that your teacher and master is Jesus himself, and that it is your goal to be like him. Because when referring to Jesus, God the Father said, “this is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” Do you want to please God? If so, the simple answer is to be like Jesus.
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Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life.” If Jesus is the way, then we should follow his path. We should follow his example. We should be like him. Because in Matthew 10, Jesus explained that, “it is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters.” What does it look like to be like Jesus? Step one is to find out who he is. Read the Bible, especially Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the first four books of the New Testament, and examine the words and deeds of Jesus, himself. Because to be like someone, we must first get to know them. Step two, is to ask the Holy Spirit to help you to be transformed into his likeness. It is counter-culture and counter-human to be like Jesus. We can’t do it on our own. That is why Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit, to help us in our journey to be like our teacher and master on this earth. So I would encourage you to take steps to becoming like Jesus. For you, the first step may be allowing the Holy Spirit to birth that desire in you; to show you that a life in Christ should be the end goal for all of us. Because each and every one of us, whether we are a believer or not, would like to hear the words the Father spoke when referring to Jesus when he said, “this is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
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