12/27/25

As I was praying this morning, I started to ask God to help me live more like Him. As I was talking to God about this, He placed in my heart an evaluation of myself by the percentage of how much of my life is truly about Him. As I started thinking about time spent in prayer, the time spent reading His word, the time I spent in service to Him, and the time I spoke about and was an example of Him, I realized it was still no more than 25 percent of my day. That means 75 percent is spent on me. Then I thought about the fact that Christ gave up EVERYTHING but who He is, for me. EVERYTHING but who He is, and actually He gave up a portion of who He is. For example, He is life, but He gave that up for three days for me. He is in perfect fellowship with the other two persons of the God Head, but for a time the Father had to forsake Him for me. He is completely sinless, but He for a time took on sin and its wages for me. So in a way, He gave up for a time, part of who He is. Although in doing so, He actually proved who He is in His Holiness and Righteousness.

I don't know about you, but I desire to be more about, and more like my Savior each and every day. As I was praying through this God took me to our verse for today. 1 Corinthians 11:1 NASB95 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

Paul makes a most powerful statement. One that I have never been able to make. Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ. Oh, how I want to, and in the power of God and His revelation to me through prayer, I hope to improve and be an imitator of Christ. Not for my glory but so in me you will see Christ and glorify Him. Then, in Him, glorify the Father, as the power of the Holy Spirit is glorified through this process.

The way Paul is able to do this is found in the last two verses of the previous chapter. They read, 1 Corinthians 10:32-33 NASB95 Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.

Do you offend others by looking to please yourself and make yourself look good? Do you seek to protect and defend yourself so as to make yourself out to be without sin? Or instead, do you put yourself on the level of others, showing that you are no better, but by the grace of God through Jesus, you are saved, and they can be as well? Then do you in that grace attempt to live as Christ?

We need to live a life focused on Jesus, giving up our self-pleasing pleasures for the glory of Jesus, and then, in professing His grace, you can say look this way and see Jesus.

Praise the Lord, He gave up EVERYTHING, INCLUDING FOR A TIME PARTS OF HIMSELF FOR ME! Do we look like that?

Love Bro. Scott,

scratch that, Love from Jesus.