You’re Gonna Be Like Him

Romans 8:29-30
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son. . . And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.


Becoming Like Jesus

We’ve been learning that nothing is an accident when it comes to your relationship with God. He decided to make you his child before the world began. Then, he arranged every detail in your life so that you would hear the gospel and accept Jesus as your savior.

The movie, Back to the Future 2, involves the time traveler in a situation in which his mother falls in love with him. He has to make sure nothing comes of that relationship or it will change his present. As the events unfold, it becomes very clear that changing just one relationship in a person’s life could make a radical difference in the future of many people for several generations.

God doesn’t travel in time to arrange the details of our heredity, our birth, and the days of our lives. Because he is eternal, all-knowing, and all-powerful, God has already planned every detail of who we are and what will happen to us. Romans 8:29-30 highlights four significant things God does to make every one of his children look like Jesus. First, he predestines or chooses us before creation. Next, he calls us and makes us want to be saved. Then, he justifies us by declaring us not guilty of any sin. He can do that because Jesus gave his life on the cross to pay the death penalty for our sins. The fourth and final thing God will do for each of his kids is to make us be like Jesus.

God uses everything that happens in our lives from the moment of salvation until our death to mold us. God uses all sorts of experiences, influences, teachings, and discipline as his tools. He helps us think, feel, and act more and more like Jesus all the time. We won’t become perfect in this life, no matter how hard we try. But, the moment we die, God will instantly finish the job. 1 John 3:2 says, “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he [Christ] appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”

God has given his word that he will make us holy, pure, and godly from the inside out. You could say that is his primary purpose in our lives. God filters every second of our lives through his love and power in order accomplish his goal of making us look like our big brother, Jesus. What a full, meaningful, and adventurous life we get to live as the chosen, called, and adopted children of God!


Today’s Prayer:
Eternal God and Father, thank you that there are no accidents in life because you are in control. Thank you that you use every single part of my life to make me like Jesus. You use my goof-ups just as easily as you use my greatest successes. I praise you for being the absolute king and organizer of my life. Amen.



From: New Wine Skine - Written by Martha E Menne