Want To Be Like Jesus? Christian, You Already Are, Maybe More Than You Think

My Utmost For His Highest 

Death no longer has dominion over Him.…the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God… —Romans 6:9-11

{CHAMBERS} “Eternal life is the life which Jesus Christ exhibited on the human level. And it is this same life, not simply a copy of it, which is made evident in our mortal flesh when we are born again. Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. […] “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you…” (Acts 1:8)— not power as a gift from the Holy Spirit; the power is the Holy Spirit, not something that He gives us. The life that was in Jesus becomes ours because of His Cross, once we make the decision to be identified with Him. […] Jesus came to give us an endless supply of life— “…that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). […] Even the weakest saint can experience the power of the deity of the Son of God, when he is willing to “let go.” […] We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part. Then Jesus will have complete and effective dominion in us, and people will take notice that we have been with Him.”

{ELGIN} Jesus on Earth was God incarnate.  God in the flesh.  The God-man.  As Christians, we can all agree to that. He was also called the first born among many. (Romans 8:29) “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren”  Have you given that much thought?  We are like Jesus in that we are flesh but we have the very nature of God in us, God the Spirit. The Spirit that seals us and gives us the ability to understand the things of God – spiritual things – and the ability to relate to God .. His sons and daughters. My son and daughter have my DNA and in a similar way we have God’s. We have been born again by the Spirit. (John 3:5-6)  Do you walk and think and breathe with an awareness of this?  Is your focus on your Father.  Do you not know how great of a work God has wrought in you? That it is no longer you who live, but Christ lives in you? (Galatians 2:20)  As Christians, we are walking in eternity.  This mortal life will end one day, but that will not be the end of us.  (Galatians 5:24-25) “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”