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God’s Desire for You to Be Totally Like Him

God’s desire is for you to be totally like Him.

That isn’t something that we naturally seek.

Often we stick our toes in the sand and resist the waves crashing around our feet trying to topple us over!

God’s desire is for me to be totally like Him, it is for my good but often I have the toes-down-in-the-sand kind of reaction!

Do you sit in church listening to the message week after week without responding to the Words falling on your ears?

God’s Desire is for You to be Like Him

How often are you like the listener who hears but doesn’t DO?

Does your mind wander during church as mine does?

Do you think and plan what you do in the afternoon after church?

Sometimes my stomach rumbles and I think more about filling my body with the breakfast I missed than filling my heart with the words falling on my ears through the pastor’s message.

I’ve done that many times and if you are honest with yourself, so have you!

Are You Becoming Like Jesus?

God desires to change you so thoroughly that you love Jesus from a sincere heart.

Satan desires to devour you and thwart your efforts to be like God. If he can’t get you totally on his side, he will distract and disarm you so that you are changed for his purposes. He will try his best to keep you from having a sincere heart after God’s own heart.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5:8

Suddenly I was writing down everything our pastor was saying as I could see how these things had played out in my life.

I can’t remember the context of the other things that he shared because God has a way of working them into my life and thoughts in a way that will move my heart.

Here are some nuggets that might encourage your heart to change in some way today:

  • God repeatedly limits Satan’s schemes!
  • Be alert to Satan’s slander!
  • Do not live in dread of Satan!
  • BUT also do NOT ever think yourself too godly to fall! 1 Corinthians 10:12
  • Pray for each other!
  • Remember that God can truly make you like Him!
  • You are NOT hopeless!
  • Others are NOT  hopeless!

Don’t ever catch yourself saying that someone can’t change!

Culture a Sincere Heart

All this reminds me of two verses from the book of Jude where we are reminded to keep our eyes on Jesus so that we do not fall. We can’t rest in our assumed godliness and think we cannot fall. We must rest in Jesus who will keep us from falling.

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Jude 24-25

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The change that God is looking for in us is for us to have a relationship that depends on Him.

Without depending totally on Him, we are apt to ‘fall’ and then it will not be possible to be presented to God as faultless.

Faultless because Christ’s likeness is covering our likeness with Himself.

Don’t stick your toes down into the sand and resist what God is trying to do in your life.

Just like the soft sand will slip from under your feet as the water goes back down the beach, your footing, without Jesus will not hold you fast!

Did this resonate with you today? What did you learn from what you heard in church this past Sunday or from your time alone with God?

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  1. God wants to thoroughly change you into His likeness: I take this as a privilege invitation from God. Why? Because our enemy is consistent in trying to tell us that it’s not possible, but I trust God’s promises in the bible: “I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me.” Phil. 4:13. It is not me but CHRIST!

    1. Hi Yogie! I loved the verses that you shared to give you strength in knowing that it is possible to change into God’s likeness. I think those two verses are a wonderful addition to what I shared. Have a wonderful week!

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