The Image of Christ

Hello everyone,

If you try to be a good Son of God, in other words, if you try to be a good Christian by yourself, you’ll fail, and here’s why. To receive Jesus into your life doesn’t give your ‘you’ the license to do anything it wants and it becomes ok with God. Actually, it was the ‘you’ doing things on its own that Adam did and the world does which God never wanted because it has its root in the knowledge of good and evil. So, how then do you live as a Son of God and not living using you ‘you’ to live? Is that even possible? It is, and I’ll tell you how, so keep reading.

Jesus said in John 5:19, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.” Jesus in John 14:9-10 responded to Philip’s question for Jesus to show them [the disciples] the Father. And Jesus said, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own I authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.” The thing is Jesus did have a ‘Him’. The ‘Him’ we always referred to was actually when reading about Jesus was actually God, there was no self in any way because He was completely led by the Spirit, in other words, led by God, this is why the scripture says, “He is the image of the invisible God” Colossians 1:15a, but some would think because He is God this was why He did everything perfectly. But seriously, how else was He meant to live a perfect life if not because God had to live through Him which is the only way the Sons of God can live a perfect life, but that is not all.

As Sons of God, you need to understand that there is no ‘you’ anymore but only Jesus Christ. Apostle James wrote in his epistle that the word of God is a mirror. In James 1:23-25, he wrote that if anyone hears the word of God and does nothing with it, is like a man looking at himself in a mirror and as he leaves, he immediately forgets what he saw, on the other hand, anyone who hears the word of God and continues in the word, thus doing the word would be that man who looked into the mirror and saw himself but as he left, didn’t forget what he saw. The question now is “what did he see”? Verse 25c of James 1 says, “…this one will be blessed in what he does.” What the man saw wasn’t himself, rather, what he saw was 'Himself'--Jesus.

As I said earlier, Jesus’ personality was clearly God living in Him, the same is what every Son of God should understand when they look into the mirror, which is the word of God. First of all, the word of God is talking about and referring to Jesus Christ, He is the One we are to see when we look into the mirror and not the ‘you,’ because the moment you received Jesus into your life, you became Him, you were given His Spirit which is Himself, which is why you have His mind and you are a joint heir with Him, and why as He is so are you here on earth. (ref.: 1 Corinthians 2:16; Romans 8:17; 1 John 4:17). The scripture further puts that we are equipped to attain the full measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, (ref. Ephesians 4:13), which your Spirit already has, but your mind or soul needs to grow into it which is what Romans 12:2 talks about when it says we need to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. The only challenge here is that if you don’t see Christ when you look into the mirror or don’t see yourself as Christ when you are studying the scriptures, you cannot attain the purpose of your calling here on earth, and all that you are doing is just a waste of time.

Hebrews 11:6 says, without faith it is impossible to please God. Abraham saw himself as a father of many nations, and not a future father of many nations even before Isaac was born, this is called faith, thus calling that which be not, as though they were, (ref.: Romans 4:17), but Abraham was already a father of many nations, he had to understand and feel that as already existing, not feeling optimistic, but seeing it in reality, this is faith. Likewise, we are to see ourselves as Jesus is right now, and not a future view of things to come, and as you do this you see that you are indeed the physical manifestation of Jesus here on earth. This is why the church is called the body of Christ, otherwise, if this weren’t so the church won’t be in sync with the head who is Jesus.

Every Son of God is the image of Jesus and is expected to portray every single characteristic of Jesus Christ, therefore, everything that is Him and is 'Him' is also in you, and anything that is not in Him or Him is not in you. In other words, since Jesus is above death, you are above death, since Jesus is above sickness, disease, principalities, and power, above the devil, above poverty, likewise you are also above all these things. And since Jesus has a perfect health, a brand new life, the wealth of God, the wisdom of God, and many more, likewise you also have all these things. It would be foolish of you to lower yourself below Jesus Christ or raise yourself above Him which can NEVER be possible. The reason we cannot and shouldn’t do that is that we are one with Him, in fact, we are in Him. Your life is now hidden in Christ because you died and He is now your life, (ref.: Colossians 3:3-4). Remember, you are the image of Christ.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from New King James Version (NKJV)