These past couple of months has been spent with searching. Searching for what God wants for my life and how to go deeper with Him. Sometimes God shows us our ending so that we can grasp ahold of hope and have a desire for more. A couple months ago God put me on a journey of who am I? In finding who I am called to be, I needed to find out who God was. God sparked a desire in my heart of learning who the men and women in the bible was and what their purpose was.
All these names in the old Testament are pillars that we can look back on and say, “thats how I can obtain paitence” by looking at Jobs life. David was a man after God’s own heart. Often times we say, man I wish I could be as wise as solomon or a prayer warrior like Hannah. I’m sure weve all said I want to be like so and so and go on to explain how Elisha had a double portion or Elijah had power from God.
God said being like so and so is great, but why not be like Samson too, who had abundance of strength. Isaiah who truly understood who God was and the soverinty of our God. Why not understand these things too. Recognize that everyone in the bible means something for a reason. Moses was a leader but Joshua who came after him followed God. Joseph waited for several years for his dream to come to pass. These people as a whole show many traits that we as God’s people need to acquire.
I had made a kind of wishful statement to God and a couple other people. I said ” if I could acquire everything that every person in the bible ever had, I would take it in a heart beat.” Not knowing that God had a plan, not even realizing that those very thoughts and true heart desire was going to lead me to who I am today.
With that heart felt desire boiling in my soul God spoke to me and said ” Why cant you have everything that they had? Why can’t you be like Jesus?” It stumped me for a moment.. What is being like Jesus have anything to do with being like the old prophets? It has EVERYTHING to do with being like them!! Though Solomon is wise, so is Jesus! Though job is patient, so is Jesus. Though Noah is obedient, my Lord Jesus is too. Though david was a man after God’s own heart, yes I can say my Lord Jesus Christ is truly right after Gods own heart!
At that moment God had revealed something to me that truly was the most humbling, exciting, and mind blowing thing God had ever revealed to me! In finding out who I needed to be (Christ-like) he showed me who he was and is and is forever more! He is the Alpha and Omega. The Beginning and the End. He reigns with all authority and is every righteous man combined into one body.
I WANT TO BE LIKE JESUS!
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Why is there so much controversy, so much doubt, and why are o many saying THEIR belief is the right one? We have God, we know good from bad, and right from wrong, so why is there any need for ANY religion to try to be THE one? God isn’t making all these religions! MAN is! Does that make theirs the right way or the only way to believe? NO! God’s words straight from Him is the right way. It doesn’t have to come under the heading of Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian or any of the other denominations! It doesn’t have to be followed in a church, only in the heart. Those of us who say they KNOW their way is the right way have no more idea if that’s true than I do but their pride won’t let them even consider that possibility. Any more than most republicans would e Er believe a Democrat just might be a better person for our president, governor. Or whatever! Those titles do NOT make them perfect or imperfect. They’re just words or labels that humans attached to groups they apparently decided to like or follow!
We’ve all got a brain! Get rid of those titles and simply look at the words of Jesus! Not in any certain Bible or In any certain church!
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I’m sorry I didnt see this till now. But I do agree with you. It is not the name above the door that sends you to heaven. It is the personal relationship you have with Jesus that will send you to heaven. You can be a Baptist and still go to hell if you don’t have a relationship with Jesus. Same as pentecostal, Presbyterian, Methodist and other denominations. We are the body of Christ and we should reflect His very image. Not the image of the Baptist way or the Pentecostal way or Methodist way. Jesus said He is the way the truth and the life!
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