THE IDEAL CHRISTIAN 3(concluding part)
Jesus (GOD) loved all
with his heart and thereby was willing to die for our sake
- ”NOW BEFORE THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER,WHEN JESUS KNEW THAT
HIS HOUR HAS COME THAT HE SHOULD DEPART OUT OF THIS WORLD UNTO THE FATHER,HAVING LOVED HIS OWN WHICH WERE IN THE WORLD,HE
LOVED THEM UNTO THE END”-JOHN 13:1.
-“FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON,THAT
WHOSOVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH,BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
Relating this to our present life, you might ask “ARE WE MEANT TO GIVE OUR LIFE AND DIE FOR
SOMEONE WE LOVE OR CARE ABOUT?” my
answer is no but yet, we can die for someone we love by giving our best to our
loved ones by giving them our all in any situation and going to any length for
such person and again, someone might ask, what is love or how do we show love,
I will simply say Love is being there always for someone you care about and
making the persons concern yours at all times.
Humility, we can say is the recognition of
self in relation to God ,the acceptance of one’s defects and submission to
divine grace(Wikipedia). Being humble you are willing to accept corrections and
take orders not caring the age group or who it is coming from, we are willing
to accept things and respect people’s wishes... But, the question here is how
many of our Self-Acclaimed Christians can boldly say they do this
unflinchingly?
When going through
the scriptures, we can see how Faithful Jesus was in every area of his life
from his young days to times with his disciples and to times when he taught different
crowds and in different halls. He was always steadfast, standing on his words
and keeping to promises.
Anytime you hear
the word virtuous, what comes to mind? If I am to guess right I will say
keeping off impure things. Well if you are thinking this way, you are not so
far from the truth. Virtuousness is an act of staying off unclean acts and
immoral things and at all times, doing what is right. We will all agree that
this is no easy fit to achieve because the times we are in does not help matters
much, but we will also agree that there is nothing as good as striving for
perfection because even though we cannot be perfect, each day we become a
better version than we were yesterday.
As Christians we
should be patient in every aspect of our lives, from our prayer life to our
daily activities and even down to when we handle people but opposite is the
case; when we pray we can’t wait for our reply or answer from God we want quick
responses and when we don’t get it we say there is no God. Even when in the
midst of friends, as true Christians we should be patient enough to have
listening ears to hear what they have to say and not just talk or jump into
conclusions. We should be patient to think things through before arriving at
any decision and we should be patient enough to hear when God is speaking to
us. If we relate patience to Christ, we would see that throughout his days on
earth, he always waited upon the Lord to hear him speak and that is a sign of
patience.
Obedience... This
is one wonderful trait of Christ most of us are guilty of not following… The
present day youth are even famous of this, some even take it as far as been
disobedient to their parents and guardian, some to their teachers and some
generally to people older than they are, but this is not the example Jesus laid
for us; Jesus always obeyed whatever he was told by God to the latter carrying
out God’s wish to the very end (giving
his life on the cross).
I will stop here but below are some other
traits/characteristics of Jesus Christ of which if we follow them we could be
classified as AN IDEAL CHRISTIAN … Never forget no one is perfect, we are all
works in progress striving towards perfection, perfection may be far from near,
but each day is a step closer than we were yesterday. The change starts with us
and we are also the want to see in the world... it begins with you.
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