Do We REALLY Resemble Our Father?
We live in a world where we rejoice when a husband and wife are able to conceive and birth a child. When they do, we peer into the stroller & into the bassinet, as we exclaim: “Oh he looks just like . . .” (fill in the blank) OR “She looks so much like . . .” (fill in the name). It’s fun to attempt to SEE another in the face of a newborn baby OR in a playful toddler OR in the actions of a family’s child OR even in the decision-making of a young adult. We enjoy SEEING a previous generation ALIVE & LIVING within the current and newest generation.
- Why would we not think God created us to be just like that?
- Why would we not believe that God made us that way on purpose?
- Why would we not consider how our Creator saw fit to make us just like the first man: Adam?
We should know that God created us after His own likeness when he fashioned us inside our mother’s womb.
We should also know that we gain a NEW IMAGE, a NEWNESS, a NEW SPIRIT whenever we are BORN AGAIN into GOD’S FAMILY! At the moment of our “second” and “most important” birth, we are “made into the image of God and gained a new heart.”
“Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put My Spirit within you and bring it about that you walk in My statutes, and are careful and follow My ordinances.
And you will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
(Ezekiel 36: 26-28 NASB)
In the Old Testament of the Bible, we are shown the ONE task God’s people were to do. From the beginning, they were to remain faithful to God! That’s It! Period! One solitary job! ONE! Their task was to show the world the Greatness of Almighty God & they were to do this through the Devotion to the LORD, through their care of their brothers and sisters who also walked in faith, through their concern of the orphans, widows, and oppressed. That’s It! The children of God were not to be “lip service” people but people of action. They were to be people who did not stand around “talking” about what they should do to show Jehovah God to the world, but they were to “get busy with their hands and feet” displaying the God of love who lived within them—Heart, Soul, Mind, & Strength.
In the New Testament of the Bible, we are shown the ONE task God’s people were to do. From the moment of our salvation, we are to remain faithful to God. That’s It! Period! One solitary job! ONE! Our task is to show the world the Amazing Grace found in Jesus Christ & we are to do this through our Devotion to our Savior & Lord, through our care of our brothers and sisters who also walk with us in faith, though our concern of the orphans, widows, and oppressed. That’s It! The children of God are not to be “lip service” kind of people but people of action. We are to be people who do not stand around “talking” about what we should do to show Jesus to the world, who are not too busy or too self-absorbed. We are to be the “hands and feet of Jesus.” We are to display the love of God to the world.
We are to seek GOD FIRST—HEART, SOUL, MIND, & STRENGTH!
The melody “Leaning” by Matt Maher & Essential Worship (featuring Lizzie Morgan) reminds us of our One Task: We are God’s & He is Ours!
Find time to listen today to this melody and be reminded.
Find time to study God’s Word today and recall Who Must Be Our 1st Love!
Once we become the children of God, we should “LOOK like a child of God” in every part of our being:
- In our words
- In our thoughts
- In our actions
- In our reactions to life
- In our love toward those who have a need
- In our verbal witness to those who do not yet know Jesus as Savior
- In our care of our brothers and sisters in Christ
- In our walk with our Father—Jehovah God!
- In our EVERY SINGLE PART of OUR BEING!
Do We REALLY Resemble Our Father?
Do We—REALLY?
Do Others Look at Us & See Jesus in Us?
Do Others See our Actions & See God?
Do Others Hear our Words & See Our Father?
Are we living like the children of God OR Are we living like someone else?
When we look into our eyes, are we praising the God—Who lives inside us, Who placed His Spirit inside us—OR—Are we looking away in shame?
The writer of Hebrews understood this truth, and God gives us the words found in His Word to remind us of the people we should be, to remind us Whose Image we are to resemble, & to remind us Whose we were Born Again to BE in all that we say, think, and do.
Let us be reminded today—
Whose we are! “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; . . .”
&
Who Proclaimed! “so you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
May we not walk in slavery, returning to the way we “use to be” as children of the darkness. &
May We REALLY Begin This Day to Resemble Our Savior to the World!
So That—As We Do, We Will REALLY Resemble Our Father as we are called to do!
“Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, so that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.
and free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.”
(Hebrews 2: 14-15 NASB)
&
“Take care, brothers and sisters, that there will not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.
But encourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
For we have become partakers of Christ if we keep the beginning of our commitment firm until the end,
while it is said,
TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS
WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.”
(Hebrews 3: 12-15 NASB)