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How would you describe Jesus in only a few words?  It is virtually impossible.  There are so many things we can say about Him and the ways to describe Him are almost infinite.  In relation to our being like Him, the Holy Spirit transforms us into the image of Christ daily as we die to self, surrender fully to the Lordship of Christ, and as we are filled with the Holy Spirit.  It is the Holy Spirit who produces the character of Christ (the fruit of the Spirit, etc.) in us and makes us more like Jesus.

As we think about Jesus, we can say things like, “He was faithful, holy, kind, gentle, obedient to His Father’s will, etc.  All of these characteristics and so much more are to be part of who we are as we grow in Him.  But, as I asked in the last post, as you look at the daily life of Jesus and how He lived His life, what are just a few one-word descriptions that give us insight as to what it means to live as one of His disciples?  Let me offer just a few of these.

When you look at the Gospels and see how Jesus went through His everyday life, you see that on a daily basis He loved, He taught, He prayed, He healed, He evangelized, He served, and He fellowshipped.  Again, let me say, we are looking at Jesus’ daily life with a telescope, not a microscope.  Many of the other qualities you could use to describe Jesus can be placed under one of these seven areas.  I am certainly not suggesting that these are the only seven ways to describe how Jesus lived His daily life.  In the next post, I want to begin to share how this relates to us as His disciples, how these qualities can be lived out in our daily lives, and how this relates to Jesus’ command to make disciples.

In Christ’s service,                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Allen