How can I actually become
Christlike?
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Jeff Lampl
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Jeff Lampl
First,
it is possible to become Christ-like to some degree.
In fact that is what Jesus means to do with us.
“Be
holy, even as I am holy” Leviticus
11:44
Here’s
what it takes. Dallas Willard
has this exactly right.
My
central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing—by following him
in the
overall style
of life
he chose
for himself.
If we
have faith
in Christ, we must believe that he knew how to live. We can, through
faith and grace, become like Christ
by practicing the types of activities he engaged in,
by arranging our whole lives around the activities he himself practiced
in order to remain constantly at home
in the fellowship of his Father.
What
activities did Jesus practice? Such things as solitude and silence,
prayer, simple and sacrificial living, intense study and meditation upon
God’s Word and God’s ways, and
service to others. Some of these will certainly be even
more necessary to us than they were to him, because of our greater or
different
need. . . .
.
. . . So, if we wish to follow Christ—and to walk in the easy yoke with
him—we will have to accept
his overall way of life as our way of life totally. Then,
and only then, we may reasonably expect to know by experience how easy is
the yoke and how light the burden.
Dallas Willard
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