Who Do You See in the Mirror?

 

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.
Galatians 3:26 (NIV)

The older I get, the more I look like my dad.

That's not just my opinion. I've had that truth declared to me by men who used to sit in the front row of the church with him when they were all deacons.

And I see it, too. The oval-shaped face, the slightly curved shoulders...even a case of furniture disease ("Where your chest has dropped down into your drawers").

But you know what? I'm not Clarence Roth's child because I look like him. I look like him because I'm his child.

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Truth Is...It's the same way with being a child of God. No amount of Doing Good or Living Right will make me a member of the royal family. But because I believe Yahweh when he says he loves me enough to die in my place, I find myself, the older I get, looking more and more like Jesus...allowing the Holy Spirit to guide me into doing good and living right.