Christ is Perfect

Christ was perfect, we are not.
What does this mean to you? Once we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior, we know this means he was a perfect sacrifice for our sins. He was perfect, but still paid the price for our sins. This means we do not have to do anything other than accept His grace and we will be saved. But what happens after we are saved. Do we continue to act the same or do the same things as before? No. We are to model ourselves after Christ. How do we do this? I struggle with this every day! I have heard for years that we are to die to ourselves every day, but don’t think I truly understood this until a few days ago. Even though I am saved and know that grace alone is what saved me, I thought I could work hard and become this perfect example of a Christian. So many times we try to model ourselves after someone we think is a good Christian, but they are still human and will never be perfect. “Suzie the Sunday school teacher” battles with sin just like everyone else. Our society is so caught up in being perfect and achieving goals that we often find someone that we think is a great example and try to imitate their life. There is only one life we should imitate – Christ. How can we imitate Him? We have to spend time listening to Him and spend time reading about His life. He ate, drank, and slept just like us. He walked on this earth! How awesome is it that our God actually knows exactly what it feels like to be us! The first step to becoming like Christ is realizing we can’t do anything on our own. Our best is still rubbish to God unless we allow Him to use us. We have to give Him all of our sins and failures and ask Him to make us whole and use us every day. We also have to ask Him to show us areas we need to submit to Him. This is a truly never ending process. Once we submit one area to Him, He will reveal more and more areas of our lives that we still try to control. If we ever start to think, “Wow, I did a great job,” (I am guilty of this), God will show us we really haven’t accomplished anything because pride has taken over and we need to start over by submitting our pride to Him. We are works in process until the day we finally see Christ face to face!

"So get rid of your old self, which amde you live as you used to; the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires. Your hearts and minds must be made completely new, and you must put on the new self, which is created in God's likeness and reveals itself in the true life that is upright and holy." Ephesians 4:22-24

“Without the spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are ships without wind. We are useless.” Charles Spurgeon