Monday, October 21, 2024

Orange Moon Monday, October 21, 2024 "Like Him"

The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…



"Like Him"

  

   

      In both this life and forevermore, conformity to Christ does not involve our becoming like Him intrinsically, but rather though His indwelling.


    "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren" (Romans 8:28-29).

   "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is" (I John 3:2).

    "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27).


    God purposed to "bring many sons unto glory" by the person and work of the Lord Jesus on our behalf.  Perhaps the most wondrous feature of such grace involves the living presence of Christ in our hearts.  Born again believers are sons and daughters united to the Son, having been spiritually birthed and adopted into "the whole family of Heaven and earth" through the entrance of Christ's spirit into our hearts (Hebrews 2:10; Colossians 1:27; Ephesians 3:15).  


   "God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying Abba Father" (Galatians 4:6).


     Only one "from everlasting to everlasting" Son - God the Son - exists (Psalm 90:2; Hebrews 1:8).  In both Heaven and earth, there is no one like the Lord Jesus, the God who became man and the man who remains God.  It remains true, however, that our Savior has drawn nearer to us than we can fully know to perpetuate our becoming like Him in character, nature, and way.  Our spirits are moons to His sun, purposed to absorb His light, and then to reflect it outwardly for the glory of God through our minds, wills, emotion, and bodies.  "Ye shine as lights in the world" (Philippians 2:15).  The work is presently ongoing as we "grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (II Peter 3:18).    God will one day finish the work, and the next life will find a vast company of the redeemed who think, speak, act, and relate like Christ because He perfectly lives in us, and we perfectly live through Him.


    Our Heavenly Father has been and will forever be pleased with His beloved Son.  He is pleased with us as He sees the Lord Jesus more and more revealed in us, and as we "walk even as He walked" (I John 2:6).  Yes, one Son, revealed in many sons and daughters, will multiply the pleasure of the God whose "eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord" bestows upon the the greatest gift He could have given… "we shall be like Him."


"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."

(II Corinthians 3:18)


Weekly Memory Verse

  "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is."

 (I John 3:2)


       

































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