Mar 6 - DAY 22 - Created to Become Like Christ

Day 22

Created to Become

Like Christ

take on an entirely new way of life

- a God-fashioned life,

a life renewed from the inside

and working itself into your conduct

as God accurately reproduces

his character in you.

Ephesians 4:22-24 MSG

What is the purpose of this life?

                                            

If this is it … if all we have is our short time on earth … if we die and we become just dust … then the purpose of life might as well be “eat, drink, and be merry.”

Secularists may say that we’ve involved in such a way that a little cooperation and altruism is bred into us. We survive better, in other words, if we work together. But if all we are is a product of our genes and if our destiny is only our inevitable demise, then we might as well go for all the gusto we can muster … because this is it.

But what if this is not it … what if beyond our short time on earth, we have an eternity in heaven … what if dying is the gate to something more real … what if this life is preparation for eternity?

Here’s the real what if … What if God uses this life as our training ground? That changes everything doesn’t it?!

Suddenly life is not about me, myself, and I, and grabbing all the gusto. Suddenly life is about loving God and serving others. Indeed, as Rick Warren says, “God’s ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development.”

Not comfort … but character.

And how do we do that? By “becoming like Christ.”

That’s really the goal of life. Indeed, by becoming like Christ, we begin to love God and serve others … and develop our character … and worship … and pray … and trust … and focus gloriously on heaven.

In Christ’s Love,

a guy who wants to look more like Jesus

(and no, that doesn’t mean I need a beard

… much to my wife’s relief)