As I struggle this morning with my past failures and the failures of others in my life, I cry out to Jesus and ask Him to help me let go of the struggle. I want to be cleaned of the self-defeat and the ill feelings towards the ones I feel have wronged me. Most of the ill feelings come from the expectations I have of them.
I have discovered, through Holy Spirit conviction, that I have been comparing myself and others to Jesus. I think that because I want to be LIKE Him and I want the others in my life to be LIKE Him, that we are supposed to BE Him.
The Holy Spirit quickly scrubbed me down with what felt like a scrub brush to my soul. It was a down right nasty feeling of tearing away the old and replacing with new thoughts. A feeling that immediately cleared the word struggle from the moment's vocabulary.
God spoke to me and said that I am to love LIKE Jesus, live LIKE Jesus, forgive LIKE Jesus, see others LIKE Jesus does. Not once did I ever read or hear Him say that we are to BE Jesus.
In essence, my way of thinking has been judgmental and a level of idolatry. Clearly, God doesn't want us to be LIKE that. Throughout His Word, God gives clear instructions of how we are to become more LIKE Jesus. If He wanted us to BE Jesus, we wouldn't have needed Jesus to save us from ourselves.
If God intended for the ant to do the job of an eagle, we wouldn't need an eagle. My point and I believe that of the Holy Spirit's conviction today...everyone has their place according to God's will. Jesus was the only perfect One to ever walk this earth. We fail in order to learn and find our place in the furtherance of God's Kingdom. While we should strive to be more LIKE Jesus, it is not our job to BE Jesus or judge others who aren't either.
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