{"id":40231,"date":"2026-05-07T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=40231"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:16:25","slug":"26-0508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0508\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Can Become"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40233 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260508_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260508_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260508_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jesus is pure; we are greedy. He is peaceful; we are hassled. He is spiritual; we are earthbound. The distance between our hearts and his seems so immense. How could we ever hope to have the heart of Jesus?<\/p>\n<p>Ready for a surprise? You already do. If you have given your life to Jesus, Jesus has given himself to you. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:16 (TLB), \u201cStrange as it seems, we Christians actually do have within us a portion of the very thoughts and mind of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God has ambitious plans for us. The same one who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let\u2019s imagine what it means to be just like Jesus. Let\u2019s look long into the heart of Christ. Perhaps in seeing him, we will see what we can become.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40228\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-unnamed-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Just Like Jesus\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=966e2e31ff&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D966e2e31ff%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1778191186761000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1CmJLwkpeSQJsFrX_w1C0p\"><em>Just Like Jesus<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus is pure; we are greedy. He is peaceful; we are hassled. He is spiritual; we are earthbound. The distance between our hearts and his seems so immense. How could we ever hope to have the heart of Jesus?<\/p>\n<p>Ready for a surprise? You already do. If you have given your life to Jesus, Jesus has given himself to you. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:16 (TLB), \u201cStrange as it seems, we Christians actually do have within us a portion of the very thoughts and mind of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God has ambitious plans for us. The same one who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let\u2019s imagine what it means to be just like Jesus. Let\u2019s look long into the heart of Christ. Perhaps in seeing him, we will see what we can become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40231","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\/40231","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=40231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40234,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40231\/revisions\/40234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}