You are subscribed as %%emailaddress%% SO YOU WANNA BE LIKE JESUS?...REALLY?
"And He (Jesus) summoned the crowd
with His disciples, and said to them,
'If anyone wishes to come after Me,
he must deny himself,
and take up his cross and follow Me...'"Mark 8:34, bold mine
Self-denial isn't exactly on my top-ten list of things that I naturally desire to do. In fact, it's the EXACT OPPOSITE of my natural tendency toward self-gratification and self-justification and self-satisfaction and self-sufficiency and...you get the point.
And in truth, the quest to be like Jesus is more than mere "self-denial." To be like Jesus is to utterly reject personal preference and self-will in favor of "the will of God."
"Father, if You are willing,
remove this cup from Me;
yet not My will, but Yours be done."Luke 22:42, bold mine
"Not my will, but Yours," is the Jesus lifestyle. To be like Jesus is to desire God's will over your own.
Still wanna be like Jesus?
Really?
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