Hope to Be Like Jesus

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

November 18, 2025

Hope to Be Like Jesus

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened

in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you.

Ephesians 1:18a (NIV) 

What is the hope to which God has called us? In Romans 8:28, the Apostle Paul tells us that God is working all things together for good in our lives. Then at verse 29, Paul tells us about the good, or as he put it in the scripture quoted above, the hope to which He has called us:

For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

God’s good for us, His hope for us, is that we will become like Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Really? YES! How? Paul also answers this question at Philippians 2:13,

For God is working in you, giving you the desire

and the power to do what pleases him.

God, through the Holy Spirit, is always at work in our lives forming Jesus within us. However, we are not meant to be passive as God is working all things together in our lives as He is forming Christ in us. We have a role in this great work. The first part of our role is to grasp, and to affirm God’s plan, the hope to which God has called us. The second part of our role is to keep our eyes on Jesus. (Hebrews 12:2) Jesus’ heart is pure. He never misses an opportunity to comfort or forgive. He never missed hearing his Heavenly Father speak to him. He always remained focused on the priorities God had given him and never allowed the seemly urgent overshadow those priorities. (Think about the story of Lazarus in John 11.)

My Takeaway: Hebrews 12:2 tells us to fix our eyes on Jesus. It also tells us that Jesus is the one who initiated our faith, and He is the one who will perfect our faith. I am confident that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit can, and will, complete the work of forming Christ within me.

Sē’lah

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(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.

 

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