Created To Be Like God

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

June 12, 2025

Created To Be Like God

. . . let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.

Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.

Ephesians 4:23-24 

Earlier this year, during Lent, Cheryl and I began to use the Daily Office in our morning prayers together. This routine includes several passages of scripture, confessions, intercessions, Collects and Canticles. All these forms of prayers extoll the virtues, the grace and the mercy that is our God. All of these are being used by God to help us put on our new nature. We were created to be like God and this discipline is moving us along to become truly righteous and holy. As I have noted before, sometimes it seems I am moving along toward God’s purpose for me at a snail’s pace, but nevertheless,

… we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.

2 Corinthians 3:18 (The Message)

My Takeaway: I have found one of the mostly difficult truths to grasp, to own, is that God cares for me. And, that I was created to be like God. It is much easier to own that I am a sinner who falls short of the glory of God. Even so, God said I was created to be like him. I choose to, by God’s grace, accept this as reality in my life. How about you?

Sē’lah

My book on prayer,

First Think, Then Pray

is now available on Amazon Kindle.

 

(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

Copyright © 2025 by Alex M. Knight

 

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.