{"id":38325,"date":"2025-11-30T22:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38325"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:02:09","slug":"251201-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251201-like\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be Just Like Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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God rewards those who seek\u00a0him.<\/em>\u00a0Not those who seek doctrine or religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself.\u00a0And what is the reward?\u00a0What awaits those who seek Jesus?\u00a0Nothing short of the heart of Jesus.\u00a0Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:18 (TLB), \u201cAnd as the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can you think of a greater gift than to be like Jesus?\u00a0Christ felt no guilt; God wants to banish yours.\u00a0Jesus had no bad habits; God wants to remove yours.\u00a0Jesus had no fear of death; God wants you to be fearless. Jesus had kindness for the diseased and mercy for the rebellious and courage for the challenges.\u00a0God wants you to have the same.\u00a0Isn\u2019t it just like Jesus!<\/p>\n

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God rewards those who seek him. Not those who seek doctrine or religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:18 (TLB), \u201cAnd as the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can you think of a greater gift than to be like Jesus? Christ felt no guilt; God wants to banish yours. Jesus had no bad habits; God wants to remove yours. Jesus had no fear of death; God wants you to be fearless. Jesus had kindness for the diseased and mercy for the rebellious and courage for the challenges. God wants you to have the same. Isn\u2019t it just like Jesus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38328,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38325\/revisions\/38328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}