Adam and Eve together were created to be the image of God. When they decided to turn from God and believe when the serpent said they could rule the planet without God, this image was marred. But Jesus, in His glorified humanity, has ascended into the heavens to make intercession for us.

The Scriptures say we don’t have a “high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like we are yet without sin.” The Scriptures continue to say that “we can come boldly before the throne of grace.” The only hope we have is to continually fix our eyes on Jesus who is the “author and the finisher of our faith.”

When we look to Jesus, we can be changed into His image. Our character will be made like His. And we should be glad that all judgment is given to the Son because in Jesus, His humanity has become acquainted with all the things that overwhelm humanity and with all our difficulties. Jesus can take the error of Adam and Eve and restore us to relationship with the Father.

When the Bible tells us we must be sanctified or holy, it means to take on the divine nature. It’s to catch the spirit and the mind of Jesus. It’s to continuously be learning in the school of Christ.

The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 3:18, “So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.”

Because of the broken relationship that we have with God, it is impossible for any of us by our own power or our own efforts to work this change in ourselves. It’s only the Holy Spirit, which Jesus said He would send into the world, that changes our character into the image of Christ. And when this is accomplished, we reflect, as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord.

The closer you get to Jesus, the more of His character you see. The closer you get to Jesus, the more you become like Him. And you begin to reflect His character as if you were a mirror.

This transformation is something that we don’t notice, but as we walk with Jesus day by day, we start to become like Jesus. We start to reflect His loveliness. And this is the way that we grow up into grace. It’s unconsciously reflecting God’s image as we walk with Him.

Unfortunately, professed Christians don’t walk with Christ. Their eyes are trained to see only common things. Their minds dwell on the things that their eyes see. Their religious experience is often shallow and unsatisfying. Their words are valueless. How can such people reflect Christ?

Enoch was always under the influence of Jesus. He reflected Christ’s character. He showed the same qualities and goodness, mercy, tender compassion, sympathy, forbearance, meekness, humility, and love. His link with Christ day by day transformed him into the image of Him with whom he was so intimately connected.

Are you connected to Jesus today? Or are your eyes looking on the common things—the things of this world? What image are you reflecting? Are you reflecting the image of Jesus?

If you want to be like Jesus … if you want to walk with Jesus … if you want to be the mirror of Jesus to this world, all you have to do is walk with Him. Come close to Him every day to learn to follow Jesus.

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One thing that most people can agree on is that Jesus was arguably the most compassionate human to ever live. And when we talk about being compassionate to other people, Jesus is often the reference we use to model that compassion.

The fact is Jesus came to this world to be the servant of man’s necessity. The Scripture says in Matthew 8:17 that the things fulfilled in Jesus’ life were fulfilling “the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said, ‘He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.’” Jesus did this so that He could tend to the needs of humanity. He came to remove your load of disease and your misery of sin. It was His mission to bring humanity to complete restoration, back to the Garden of Eden, to the purpose for which God created us. Jesus came to give you health and peace. He came to restore in you the image of God. The reasons for which people sought the help of Jesus were many. But none who came to Jesus went away un-helped. From Jesus flows streams of healing power. In body and mind and soul, humans were made whole again. Jesus’ work is not restricted to any time or place. His compassion knew no limit. Jesus’ work was on such a large scale that no building in Israel was large enough to receive the multitudes that thronged to Him. On the green hills of Galilee, by the seashore, in the synagogues, and in every place where the sick could be brought to Him was to be found His hospital. In every city, every town, and every village through which Jesus passed, He laid His hands upon sick ones and healed them. Wherever there were hearts ready to receive His message, He comforted them with the assurance of their Heavenly Father’s love. All day, He tended to those who came to Him. And in the evening, He gave attention to those who needed support for their families. Jesus carried the weight of responsibility for the salvation of humanity. He knew that unless there was a change in the principles and purposes of human beings, all would be lost. This was the weight on His soul, and no one could appreciate the weight that rested upon Him. In this manner, He walked alone. Every day, Jesus met trials and temptations. Every day, He was brought into contact with evil, and He witnessed the power of evil upon those whom He was seeking to bless and to save. Yet He did not fail nor was He ever discouraged. Jesus was always patient and cheerful, and the sick cheered Him as a messenger of life and peace. He saw the need of humanity. He saw the need of children and young people. And to every single person, He gives the invitation, “Come to me.” As He passed through the towns and cities, Jesus was like a life-giving current diffusing life and joy to everyone. Jesus still does that today. Jesus wants to heal you of the things that weigh on your life. Jesus wants to take the load that bogs you down in life and carry it for you. Jesus wants to bring unspeakable joy to your life. But you have to come to Him. Jesus will never force Himself on you. And once you decide to come to Him, you will see that Jesus will heal you of every load and every sickness that plagues your life. The invitation is for you today. Jesus still says to you, “Come to me.”

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One of the most beautiful themes in Scripture is the idea of life-giving water. Water was so important to the Ancient Near East that it was often called the wine of God. To refuse someone a drink of water would be to commit a blatant act of evil. It is no wonder that Jesus is compared to living water in the Scriptures.

During the Feast of Tabernacles, the priest would perform a ceremony that commemorated the striking of the rock in the wilderness that Moses hit to provide water for the Hebrews to drink. The rock was a symbol of Jesus who by His death would cause living streams of salvation to flow to all those who thirst for salvation.

Jesus’ words are the water of life. In fact, during the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, there in the presence of all the multitudes, He set Himself apart to be stricken so that the water of life might flow to the world.

At the death of Jesus on the cross, Satan thought he had destroyed the Prince of Life. But from the stricken rock, there flowed living water, and as Jesus spoke to the people, their hearts would be thrilled with strange wonder. And many were ready to exclaim, as the woman at the well of Samaria exclaimed, ‘Give me this water so that I will not thirst again.’

Jesus knows the wants of your soul. Jesus also knows that pride, riches, and honor will never satisfy your heart. If you thirst, come to me, Jesus says. The rich, the poor, the high, and the low are all welcome to come to Jesus. Jesus promises to relieve your burdens. To soothe your mind. To comfort your sorrow. And to give you hope.

Many of the people that heard Jesus at this feast were mourning over disappointed hopes. Many were nourishing a secret grief. Many of those people were seeking to satisfy their restless longing with the things of this world and the praise of human beings.

But when everything in their life that they wanted was gained, they would find that they had toiled only to reach broken water vessels that could never quench their thirst. And in the myths of the glitter of the joyous scenes, they found themselves still dissatisfied and sad.

And then Jesus appears, and He “cries if any human being thirsts.” This startled them from their sorrowful meditations, and when they listened to the words that followed, their minds were kindled with new hopes, and the Holy Spirit presented the symbol before them until they saw it in the offer of the priceless gift of salvation.

The cry of Jesus to the thirsty soul still goes forth today, and it appeals to you and me with even greater power than to those who heard it in the temple on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. The fountain is open for you. If you’re weary and exhausted, you’re offered the refreshing drink of eternal life.

Jesus is still crying out. If you are thirsty, come to Him and drink. Let him that is thirsty come to me, Jesus says. And whosoever will come to Jesus can drink the water of life freely.

If you drink of that water today, Jesus will give you the water that never runs dry. If you drink of the water that Jesus will give you, you’ll never thirst again. But the water that Jesus gives you will also spring up a well in you of living water to everlasting life.

The question is will you drink? Will you accept that life-giving water that Jesus offers you today?

The Scriptures say in John 7:37-38, “On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, ‘Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’’”

All you have to do is come to Him, and He will give you that water that will satisfy your soul like nothing else can.

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The story of humanity is a story of epic failure and unbelievable restoration. God created human beings pure and unique. But the enemy, the Satan, led humans astray.

Our principles were perverted, our minds were corrupted, our thoughts were turned to a wrong channel. The purpose of the Satan was to make the world entirely corrupt. Jesus saw humans in fearful danger, and it was Jesus’ determination to save human beings by sacrificing Himself. He took on our flesh and bone so that He could accomplish His purpose of love for a degenerate race of human beings.

Then through His death, Jesus would destroy the Satan, which had the power of death, and He would deliver humans that were subjects of fear, bondage, and death. It was important to Jesus that He would be made like humans and become our brother so that He can be a merciful and faithful intercessor in the things pertaining to God and could mend the relationship of God and sinful human beings. This way, Jesus would suffer; He would be tempted and then He would be able to help and console those who are tempted.

Through the Holy Spirit, a new principle of mental and spiritual power was now available to humans. If we would partner with Jesus, we would come back into relationship with God. Christ would buy us back from death and sin and restore us to unique purity, and human minds would have the power to rise above degeneracy to relationship with God.

Jesus’ purpose, by the elevating and transforming power of truth, was to give human beings dignity. Jesus desired that God’s children would be like Him that they would exert their influence so that other human beings will be drawn into harmony with Jesus and relationship with God.

Because of our sin, Jesus could have moved far away from us. But instead of moving far away, He came to be among us. Jesus filled with all the fullness of God came to be one with us, and through His unmerited love and power, we might become whole again.

By a death of shame and suffering, Jesus paid the ransom that sin had over us. From the Kingdom of heaven, He came clothing His divinity in humanity. He descended step-by-step to the lowest depths of humiliation. No one can measure the depth of His love.

It’s amazing to see that people that call themselves Christians don’t understand the resource of divinity that we have. It’s amazing that we don’t see the cross more clearly as the means for forgiveness and pardon from sin. The cross brings the proud, selfish heart of human beings into direct contact with the Holy Spirit so that the riches of Jesus Christ may be poured into all our minds.

Hebrews 2:9 says, “What we do see is Jesus, who for a little while was given a position ‘a little lower than the angels’; and because he suffered death for us, he is now ‘crowned with glory and honor.’ Yes, by God’s grace, Jesus tasted death for everyone.”

Today, friends, I want you to see that Jesus came as the perfect sacrifice for us. And that Jesus didn’t come to just sacrifice Himself to appease God’s anger. But Jesus came to buy us back from sin and bring us back into relationship with the God who loves us and sent Jesus. He wants to make us whole again. He wants to restore us back to His intention for us when He created human beings to rule this world in partnership with God as His image-bearers.

This can be your life today. Through Jesus, you can be restored to the place where God wanted you to be. All you must do is say yes to Him. And He will transform your life beyond your wildest dreams.

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Before Jesus came, darkness had covered the earth, and that same darkness covered the hearts of its people. The darkness was so heavy upon this earth that God could hardly discern His image reflected in people—this darkness was almost universal.

It was urgent and necessary that a teacher be sent from God to this earth, a teacher in whom the divine and the human would be united. It was important that Christ should appear in human form and be the head of humanity to uplift the degenerate human beings, and by this method only could God be revealed to this world.

The Christ wasn’t forced on Jesus. To be the sacrifice for this fallen human race, He volunteered to lay aside His prerogatives of God and come to earth and show human beings that they can cooperate in partnership with God. Jesus came to shine in the darkness and to displace the darkness with the brightness of His presence.

From eternity past, a decision was made among the Trinity. The decision was that Jesus must come to this world as a baby and live the life that human beings must live from childhood to adulthood, bearing all of the trials that humans must bear. But at the same time, He must live a life void of sin so that human beings might see Jesus as an example they can become and that Jesus might know by experience how to help them with their struggles and sin.

Jesus was tried as humans are tried. Jesus was tempted as humans are tempted. The life that He lived in this world, human beings can live through His power and under His tutelage.

Our biblical ancestors predicted the coming of a distinguished teacher whose words were to be clothed with power and authority. He was to preach the Gospel, the Good News, to the poor and proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord—the year of jubilee. He was to set judgment in the earth in defense of the oppressed, and the Gentiles would come to His light. Kings would come to the brightness of His rising.

Jesus was the messenger of the covenant of God. The healing of partnership with God. The Son of righteousness. It was just in time that God sent His Son, the heavenly teacher, to come. Who was He? No less than the Son of God Himself. He showed Himself as God and, at the same time, our older brother.

What Jesus taught, He lived. What Jesus taught, He was. His words were the expression of His life and His character. Not only did He teach truth, but He was at His core the truth, and it was this authenticity that gave this teacher His power. Galatians 4:4-5 sums this idea up by saying: “But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.”

Friends, that can be your experience today. You can experience Jesus shining His light of truth into the darkness of your heart. You may not think that you can be a child of God. You may think that you’ve done too much and that God could never forgive you. But God sent His son Jesus so that you can be called a child of God again.

All you must do is just let Him transform your heart. Give your life to Jesus today. And you will see the most beautiful light shining and dispelling the darkness of your heart and your life.

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Only Jesus can truly reveal the character of God to us. Our church cannot reveal God to us. Our parents cannot reveal God to us. Our schools cannot reveal God to us. They may be able to point us to God or give us ideas about God, but the only being in this universe that can really reveal who God is at His core—Jesus.

This is exactly what Jesus came to do to this sin-sick world: Reveal the true image of the love of God. That’s why the Scriptures tell us in Matthew 1:23: “Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’”

By coming to be among humanity, Jesus not only revealed the character of the Father to humanity but to the rest of the universe and the angelic beings. Jesus was the Word of God made audible. He was God dwelling in human flesh and living among human beings.

When God passed before Moses and declared His name to be merciful and gracious, patient and abundant in goodness and truth, this was Jesus revealing the heart and the purpose of God toward human beings in the universe. This is why Jesus told His disciples before He went to the cross that His life to this point has revealed God to them and that He would continue to do so. Then God’s love for Jesus will be in them, and Jesus will be in them.

It wasn’t just to human beings that Jesus was to reveal the character of God, but the question remained in the minds of the whole universe and even heavenly beings as to what God‘s true character was. Satan left that very real question in the mind of every being. Was God holding back, or was He truly giving every being the freedom to choose Him?

But it was through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross that every being, both human and celestial, would find the true character of God willing to sacrifice His life to save the human race. It will be the self-sacrificing love of Jesus that will reveal the true character of God to the universe. We see God in Jesus.

Christ made this abundantly clear when He said in John 5:30: “I do nothing on myself. The living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father. I seek not my own glory, but the glory of Him that sent me.”

These words set forth the principle of the law of the universe of the cycle of giving and receiving. All of these things Christ received from the Father, but He took to give those things to us. So it is through Jesus that God gives life to all created beings. And through the Son, our praise and service return to the Father in a cycle of love.

Through Jesus, the cycle of goodness is complete, representing the character of the Great Giver and the law of life. If you’ve ever wondered what God is like … if you’ve ever feared God … if you’ve ever wondered what God‘s intentions are towards you … if you’ve ever asked if God is interested in the problems of your life, look at Jesus and see that God the Father loves you, and He sent His Son to show you who He really is.

It is in Jesus that you see the full image of God on display. God is love.

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