He Does - Shouldn't We?
Mar 20
1 min read
For some the concept of "being like Jesus" can seem distant, cloudy, hard to really figure. Here's a super-brief bit of help for both you and me!
Has God been faithful to you? Be faithful to Him -and others.
Has "God so loved the world" including you? Love Him -and all others in the world.
Has the Lord been patient with you? Be patient with His response to your prayers - and patient with others.
Has Jesus suffered and laid down His life to give you the forgiveness of God though none of us can earn it? You know what to do.
And as always, thanks for stopping by. -Glenn
The Lord's ways are so different from ours; Jesus was always cutting across how the humans around Him thought and acted. e.g., Be patient with others—we're talking about a God who thinks in eons and sculpts stone with water when He wants to get something done—He works in the same gear when He's changing us, Steve Wilbur pointed out to me: "people change very slowly."
He didn't bang out Creation in a few hours, like I would have. He stretched it over a week. Spoke light into existence, slid it over so there was dark too, sat back, waited till the next day, like each action He took had to be baked in a kiln 24 hours (or more, depends…