Being like Jesus | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 18, 1871

Being like Jesus.

How IS it with most of us? Do we very often think of being like Jesus? Let us stop for a moment, in the midst of the busy whirl of life, and see what answer we can honestly give to this question.

I fear it seldom enters our minds. We sometimes, it is to be hoped, think of living a pure, honest, and upright life; but that is not just what I mean. Such thoughts are good and proper, but a Christian should have a more definite aim than this. The Christian is a Christ-man, a follower of Jesus, a believer in Jesus; yea, more than this, Jesus is his ALL IN ALL. He is supposed to be one that is striving earnestly and whole-heartedly to be just like his Master—just like Jesus. Are we doing this? That is the question.

If we make this our life-object, it will be very important for us to study the character of our Saviour. It is only by long-continued and prayerful meditation and study that we gain anything like an adequate view of its virtues and excellences.

But, be assured of this one fact, that the more we study his character, as set forth in the Holy Scriptures, the more we will love him; yea, I may add, the more we will be like him.

I know of no better or safer purpose with which to enter life, and by which to be governed through life. True to this, we will not go astray—our lives will not be a failure. We will then be “fruitful in every good word and work.” Souls will be saved through our instrumentality, and the name of Jesus will be exalted in the land.

And let us ever keep before our minds the cheering fact that there is a time coming when our fondest hopes shall be realized, for it is said, “Then we shall be like Him, for we shall see him as he is.”—Sel.