In The Garden
"To Be Like Jesus"
Osella Clabaugh
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Scripture text:
"He
that Saith he abideth in him ought himself also so
to walk, even as he walked" I John 2:6
When I was a
little girl I use to love to dress up in my mama's
clothes and act like her. My children did the
same when they were little. They loved to put
on our Salvation Army uniforms, bonnet and hat and
act like they were preachers just like their daddy.
Today my grandchildren like to put on mama's clothes
or grandpa's shoes and act like they are all grown
up. I watch as the little grandchildren that
live with us take on our idiosyncrasies and say some
of the exact things we say. Children grow up
possessing many of the attitudes and actions that
they see from us.
I John 2:6
says "He that saith he abideth in him ought himself
also so to walk, even as he walked." When we
take on the name of Christ, when we become
Christians we should be Christ like. We should
walk like, talk like, love like and act like Jesus.
Examine your life, do you fall short when it comes
to being like Jesus? Let me ask you, do you
love others the way Jesus does? I mean do you
love the poor, the down and out, those that are
hurting, or are there those that you come in contact
with that you find it almost impossible to love?
In your personal life do you spend time in the Word
and in prayer as Jesus did? Are your actions
and oh yes your REACTIONS Christ like?
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ do those
around you, your family your fellow worker, know
beyond any doubt that you are a Christian and that
Christ is the most important thing in your life.
Listen
carefully as I read selected verses from the 2nd
chapter of
I John and ask God to make you totally and
completely Christ like in all ways.
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the
love of God perfected: hereby know we that we
are in him.
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself
also so to walk, even as he walked.
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his
brother, is in darkness even until now.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light,
and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness,
and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither
he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his
eyes.
Love not the world, neither the things that are
in the world. If any man love the world, the
love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the
flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life, is not of the Father, but is of the
world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God
abideth for ever.
But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye
know all things.
I have not written unto you because ye know not
the truth, but because ye know it, and that no
lie is of the truth.
Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have
heard from the beginning. If that which ye have
heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye
also shall continue in the Son, and in the
Father.
And this is the promise that he hath promised
us, even eternal life.
These things have I written unto you concerning
them that seduce you.
But the anointing which ye have received of him
abideth in you, and ye need not that any man
teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth
you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,
and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide
in him.
And now, little children, abide in him; that,
when he shall appear, we may have confidence,
and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that
every one that doeth righteousness is born of
him.
God Bless you, let's pray.
Father teach us to be just like
Jesus. Fill us with thy Holy Spirit Lord.
Fill us with the Love of Christ. Lord may we
have the heart of Jesus. Lord may everything
that we do and everything that we say be Christ
like. When others see us Lord I ask that they would
see Jesus. We love you Lord, we are your
servants and we want to be like Jesus in whose name
we pray. Amen
