​56. More Like Us

Live like Jesus.

What does that look like?

I think it can look any way we’d like when we cherry pick a Bible verse and believe a strand of words can embody our God.

But Christ is more than that. Living and breathing through every word of Scripture. He is the culmination of a world that was spoken into existence and will one day be righted by fire. He is the alpha and omega, the blessing birthed in the beginning that blooms through to the end.

He simply is.

Simple. That’s the word I think. Somebody so complex and yet can move mountains in quiet moments. He was purposeful, not wasteful. He wasn’t about entertaining Himself and sacrificed for the good of others. Yet in all this, He still had joy and humor and a spirit that yearned for justice. He had already seen His death, maybe even lived it in a heart quickening way as the end inched itself near. And through all that human fear that always tries to conquer, He still did it anyway.

I think this is why I’ve done a one-eighty. Time is ticking, and I’m asked to be a good steward of it. I’ve been given blessings, and maybe I could start working on that bucket list, tick off the things that would make my heart sing. But what about what God wants from me?

Simple. A life shaped by God’s glory, not my own. A gratitude for all the things He’s given me and a gratitude for all the things He hasn’t. Because sometimes, it’s the everything we think we want that makes us less like Him and more like us.