Being More Christ Like

Being More Christlike

How to be more Christlike?

Being more Christlike is the desire of every believer, and it is encouraging to know that God has the same desire for us. The Bible says that God “predestined believers to be conformed to the likeness of his Son” (Romans 8:29). Making us Christ-like is God’s work, and He will see it through to the end (Philippians 1:6).

We should be willing to cooperate with the Holy Spirit. Becoming more Christ-like requires both divine power and the fulfillment of human responsibility.

Three Things to be more Christ Like

1. Surrender To God – Being more Christ-like is the result of surrender to God. Romans 12:1-2 says that worship involves a total self-dedication to God. We volunteer our bodies as “living sacrifices,” and our minds are renewed and transformed.

2. Freedom From Sin – Being more Christ-like is the result of freedom from sin. Since Jesus lived a sinless life, the more we consider ourselves “dead to sin” (Romans 6:11) and live a life of purity, the more like Jesus we will be. As we offer ourselves to God, sin is no longer our master, and we are more clearly identified with Christ (Romans 6:1-14).

3. Spiritual Growth – Being more Christ-like is the result of Christian growth. When we are first saved, we are immature in wisdom and knowledge, and inexperienced in grace and love. But then we grow. In each of these things, our charge is to become stronger—and more Christ-like. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). “May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else” (1 Thessalonians 3:12).

God works in us. “We, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18). One day, however, the process will be complete. “When he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2).

The promise of being fully Christ-like in the future is in itself motivation for becoming more Christ-like now: “Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure” (1 John 3:3).

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  1. My Moring prayer

    It is you created me,
    It is you sent me
    To this world of war
    To this world of conflicts

    You created me not to do sins
    You created me not to do wars
    You created me not to do envy
    You created me not to do conflicts

    You made me with a good heart
    You made me with a good brain
    You made me with a good health
    You made me with a good thoughts

    But I am going to do sins against you
    But I am going to do work against you
    But my body is going away from you
    But my mind is thinking against you.

    If you are with me I can work for you
    If you are with me I can think about you
    If you are with me I can do for the people
    If you are with me I can’t do sins

    Let the Evil go away from me
    Let the selfishness go far away from me
    Let the holiness come to me
    Let me live in this world.

    Best regards

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