If we are serious about being transformed into the image of Christ, we will arrange our life around Him and learn a life of love. We release our thoughts to go to Him and let ourselves be loved by Him. Actually, we will find we become more loving and experience His love as we abide in Him, not by hearing another sermon or reading another book. The Greek word for abide means to make our home in Him, remain or stay. In other words, it is where our minds seem to go when we are awake and have free time, where our thoughts seem to be rooted. It doesn’t seem to happen naturally but rather takes practice to continually abide in the Lord and be present to Him. It takes some retraining of our minds and hearts so we can learn to rest in Him. We will have to slow down and take time to live more in rhythm with Him and relate in ways beyond words.
Becoming like Jesus is a slow process and it something more done to us than what we do. It is God’s work in us. We surrender and He forms us into being more like Him and it is all grace. Before Jesus death he prayed in John 17 that we would believe and be one with Him and He in us and brought into complete unity. In a nutshell Comer is saying that spiritual formation is “the process of being formed into a person of self-giving love through deepening surrender to and union with the Trinity.” Let us become a person who is pervaded by the love of Jesus!
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