(En Español)
Christ Himself is the eternal blueprint for our
lives. Only in studying Him, in measuring ourselves by Him, do we grow securely
upon the foundation of God.
Beloved, we were created to become like Christ.
God's plan has not faded or become obsolete! Even as Christ has not changed, so
neither has the plan of God for the church. Our transformation will burn in
God's heart "until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature
which belongs to the fullness of Christ" (Eph. 4:13).
You see, the focus of both leadership and
congregations should be upon attaining Christlike transformation and His love
for people. This has been the Father's purpose from the beginning of time and
it remains His unchanging goal at the end of the age. (See Gen. 1:26-27 and Rom.
8:29.)
The problem is that, too often, as Christians we
define ourselves by what we do for God rather than what we become to Him. What
pleases the Father most is not what proceeds from our hands but what rises from
our hearts. He is seeking the revelation of His Son in us. There is nothing on
earth that so pleases the Father's heart as when Jesus Christ is revealed
through us. As Paul wrote, we become a “fragrance of Christ to God” (2 Cor.
2:15).