We have everything we need to live a life that pleases God. It was all given to us by God's own power, when we learned he had invited us to share in his wonderful goodness. God made great and marvelous promises, so his nature would become part of us. Then we could escape our evil desires and the corrupt influences of this world.
2 Peter 1:3-4
What does it mean that God's nature becomes a part of us? Jesus became a man and lived among us so that we can become like God and live with Him! Adam and Eve wanted to be like God but they missed that mark entirely. By eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they became like Satan not like God! Before they sinned Adam and Eve already had a relationship with God that was ideal. They had been created in the image of God and they were like their Creator.
But when they sinned the first man and first woman fell into the terrible state that humanity has lived in ever since. Jesus came to restore us to the place of Adam and Eve in the Garden before the Fall! He does that by once again having us be "born" with the very nature of God living in us! His Holy Spirit is our daily, practical guide, adviser, teacher and comforter!
We are like the caterpillar. It does not become a butterfly because of anything it does. It is because of the nature that God put in the caterpillar that it becomes a beautiful butterfly! God's nature living in you insures that you will morph into a creature of Heaven rather than simply a man or woman of this earth!
When that change is complete you will fly away to live with Jesus forever!
"Lord Jesus, help me to focus on who I will be after I am changed completely into Your image! It is an amazing future that You have promised me and all those who have been born again into a new life with a new nature! Release me Lord and let me go! Amen."
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