How to be Like God
And there you have it. The impossible way that you can be like God.
And there you have it. The impossible way that you can be like God.
Don’t let the enemy make you think that something is wrong with you. You are not being singled out by God. You are not being punished. You are not being cursed.
It feels like humility to tell ourselves that we cannot know what God is doing, what His plans are, what awaits us when we pass from temporal life.
I was taught in my youth that this passage was talking about the way I needed to live my life as a Christian. It was said that I was to give up everything I might want, including life itself, in service to God and if I didn’t, God wasn’t going to be very happy with me.
Jesus was talking to the Pharisees. These guys were institutional religion personified. These folks wanted everyone to live by their rules and if they didn’t the Pharisees condemned them. They taught that obedience to the Law was what made people righteous and put them in right standing with God.