Day 22: Created to become like Christ

From the commencement of time God intended man to be in the image of God, but due to
man’s sin of incompliance this image was rigorously damaged resulting in both temporal and
perpetual ramifications—all detrimental to man. But God’s plan remains to make every person
like (in the image of) His Son, Jesus Christ—and this is everyone’s third purport in life, withal
kenned as sanctification. To this end God gave His Son to pay the penalty-price for everyone’s
sins on Calvary’s cross, making the gift of aeonian life (cumulation with Christ) possible for all
who will apprehend it by faith in Jesus Christ.

Man is unique in all engenderment. He is a spiritual, perspicacious, rational, and morally

conscious being. Because of this man is accountable to God. God would have every person
become godly in character, homogeneous to Christ who is the express image of God. God does
not optate to transmute a person’s personality, but He does expect each person, after the “new
birth,” to develop a character like that of Christ.

The only way to consummate God’s overall purport for one’s life is to become akin to
Jesus Christ, which is only possible by the puissance of the indwelling Holy Spirit working in
and through the believer. From a practical standpoint, this perennial process called sanctification
includes consumption of Bible doctrine, support from other believers and facing life’s
circumstances circadianly. The process is not facile, but then Christianity in this world was never
betokened to be facile for its adherents. Yet, as it develops one’s character, it is the most
rewarding action in a Christian’s life, with far-reaching, perpetual results.