No Time for Evil

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My dear friends, we are already God's children, though what we will be hasn't yet been seen. But we do know when Christ returns, we will be like him, because we will see him as he truly is.  This hope makes us keep ourselves holy, just as Christ is holy.  Everyone who sins breaks God's law, because sin is the same as breaking God's law.  You know Christ came to take away our sins. He isn't sinful, and people who stay one in their hearts with him won't keep on sinning. If they do keep on sinning, they don't know Christ, and they have never seen him. 

1 John 3:2-6 - CEV

Small children look forward to being "bigger."  In elementary school we imagine what it will be like to be in Junior High, and then High School.  At some point in our teen years we begin thinking about what it will mean to be an adult.  

Men and women who know Jesus Christ and follow Him can let their minds and hearts focus on what it will be like when Christ returns!  These verses from 1 John tell us that we will be like Him, because we will see Him as He truly is.  

When Jesus comes or when you die and leave this world you will be changed and become like Jesus!  But that change begins the minute you turn your heart to Jesus and begin a life of obedience!  The Words of Jesus become your marching orders for the day!  The Love of Jesus fills your heart and you begin to see lost men and women as He does!

Sin is crowded out by a life filled with good works and holy thoughts!  You have no time for evil in word or deed!

When Jesus comes He will finish the transformation needed in your life.  If you are nearly perfect on that Day, He will complete the process of making you into the perfect likeness of Jesus.  If you have just begun the walk of faith you will also be changed to be like Jesus!

There is a commercial for a medical procedure in the United States which claims that they can reshape someone's body and remove all their excess fat in one day.  When Jesus returns He will transform every one of His followers in the "Twinkling of an eye!"

"Lord Jesus, I do look forward to the day that I will be completely like You and see You as You really are!  May Your Holy and Righteous Name be praised now and forever.  Amen."