Could you imagine if God took over heart for one day how your life would be? Think about it what if God took you where you are at, same body, same job, same family, same life, the only thing that changes is that he is now in control of your heart. What do you think would be different? Would your family think you are different? How about your boss? What about your enemies would they see something different in you? Would you still freak out and stress in traffic situations or when someone cuts you off? God wants to have your heart he wants to lead your life, if you were a car he wants to be the engine that runs you, if you were a computer he would be the hardware and software that makes you function. Basically God wants to be more in your life than someone you talk to on Sundays and Wednesdays. If you are going to call yourself a Christian (which means Christ like) then we need to be striving daily to emulate Him. If your life would be drastically different if God were in control of your heart maybe that means you haven’t let him truly into your heart yet. In order for God to take the reigns in your life you have to let them go. Max Lucado in his book “Like Jesus” stated “God loves you where you are but he refuses to leave you that way.” God loves us where we are at but he wants so much more out of us he wants us to be like his son. Hear me out on this I know that Jesus is perfect and we are far from that but he did leave us a pretty great example on how to live our lives, and the good news is he had it written into a book so we could read about it. So I guess the first step into living a life more geared like Christ would be to start reading his word more, start praying more, start building a relationship with him more. When I was a boy I wanted desperately to be a famous soccer player, my favorite player back then was a US national team player named Alexi Lalas, part of it was because he had red hair and he was a defender, I too had red hair and I loved playing defense. So what I did was I grew my hair out like him I studied his moves and started to copy him, I started to play like he played. There are many people out there with similar stories Kobe Bryant studied many superstar basketball players like Michael Jordan and copied him to the point his highlights on Sportcenter looked identical to MJ’s. What if we took this same approach to being like Christ? What if we studied the bible examined his life and started to emulate it? Wouldn’t we be better people? Better at our jobs? Better at raising our children? We would have a life that was filled with love and forgiveness. Lets start to take on Jesus and maybe we will start to shed some of the world's ugliness and start sharing the beauty that is Jesus Christ!
