Articles
Like Us/Like Him
One of the many marvels of Christianity is this: The Son of God Himself chose to identify with us by become one of us, and now we may identify with Him and partake of His nature.
Jesus became like us. “. . . as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same . . .” (Hebrews 2:14). “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14).
In leaving heaven to take on humanity Jesus came to experience what we experience: hunger and thirst, weariness and temptation, pain and death, “in all things . . . made like his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest . . .” (Hebrews 2:17).
We are to become like Him. We may become “partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2 Peter 1:4).
Imagine it! Though God has placed us in this world, He intends us for heaven. Though we are mortal, we can be immortal. Though we are sinful, we can be holy, even in this life: “partakers of the divine nature.”
“But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory . . .” (2 Corinthians 3:18).
What a privilege God has granted to us that we should be “conformed to the image of his Son . . .” (Romans 8:29).
