House Church Talk - Visualizing Christ

[Bruce Woodford]

Dear brother Philip,

When you say you want to be like Jesus, I doubt that you mean you want to 
LOOK like Him. Rather I would think that your desire is that His moral 
character would be formed in you. Am I correct?

If so, I believe that meditation on scriptural portraits of Christ in 
scripture would be the godly manner by which to achieve your desire to be 
like Him.

It is God's desire and intention that each one of us be "conformed to the 
image of His Son". Rom.8:29

A couple of examples of character sketches of Christ in scripture are Psalm 
1 and Philipians 4:8.

The "blessed man" of Psalm one is Christ, Himself.   The character qualities 
of Phil.4:8 are only true of Christ,Himself. So as we "think on these 
things", we are meditating on  a portrait of the One who is the theme of all 
of scripture.

The tabernacle in the wilderness (the most detailed picture in scripture) is 
indeed an awesome portrait of Christ as well!   A study of Exodus 25-40 
yields a veritable mine of treasures when one realizes it is, in fact, an 
"object lesson" or a "picture book" of God's Beloved Son!

It was for such reasons as this that Paul instructed Timothy (in I Timothy 
4:13-15) to " give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to 
doctrine....Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that 
thy profiting may appear to all."

Our transformation into the image of Christ comes about by the renewing of 
our minds. Romans 12:1,2

I hope these thoughts and examples may be of real profit to you brother!

Yours in Christ,
Bruce

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