Full life to set an example

Christ is our model par excellence. There is no other. Through time there have been godly men and women who showed a life of consecration and visible integrity, but there is not one, neither because of their relationship with the Lord, nor because of their and their neighbor has been immaculate and irreproachable. The model and the example is our Lord Jesus Christ. The mercies of the Most High God have been manifested for centuries to the church founded by his Son that glorious Pentecost of the first century that set the tone for a new course in the history of God's people. The advent of the Holy Spirit and the manifestation of spiritual gifts in the believer, began, together with the expression of the most beautiful blessings of God for his children, the unbridled run of some towards falsification and the erroneous interpretation of the infallible Word of God.

There are not sufficient human merits, nor conclusive suitable works that satisfy the longings of the Lord. The Lord only wants obedience and abiding in Him to fulfill His promises of blessing. He declared us saints, set apart for him from the moment we surrender to him by recognizing the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and believing that he is the Savior of the world, the only redeemer who paid for our faults, died in our place and rose again. from the dead. No one has the right to usurp God's exclusive right to be worshiped and exalted among men. The example to follow is Christ: “For this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, setting an example for you to follow in his footsteps. (1 Pe 2.21).

The apostle Paul suggested in some of his letters that the brothers imitate him, but he made it clear that the person to be imitated was Christ: "Be imitators of me, as I also am imitators of Christ" (1 Cor 11.1). Christ is the motive for imitation and inspiration; never, and in no condition, man. Likewise, in the spirit that his collaborator Timoteo would show a humble and exemplary conduct before his fellow servants, he thanked God for the infinite mercies shown to him, who, having been a persecutor and scoffer of the church (... the worst of sinners, as he described himself), found grace before God to be his messenger and apostle to many nations and called to be imitated by those who believed in Jesus for eternal life. The focus of the imitation was not Him, but Christ.

Jesus claimed to imitate the Father. Let's examine the following expressions:

Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words that I communicate to you, I do not speak as my thing, but it is the Father, who is in me, who performs his works. (John 14.10)

"I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, so I speak" (John 8: 28d)

Christ alone worthy of praise and adoration. The Lord of Lords, exalted by the Father. Who are you setting your eyes on to imitate him? Who shapes your life to transform it from the depths of your being?

My prayer is that you put your eyes on Jesus, the slain lamb, the suffering servant who suffered to present us to the Father holy, without guilt and without blemishes because we were chosen by Him before the foundation of the world. (Ephesians 1.4). You may believe it or not, but what the Word says is that, having believed in Jesus and in the work that He did by the will and design of the Father, He, and not men, not for our own merits, but for those of Christ has declared us HOLY, set apart to give Him honor and glory.

A full life is lived from this conviction. The opposite is to poeticize and sweeten the precious gospel of the only one who lives so that we may have life, full and abundant.

God bless you!