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Jesus relationship with the father is what we should be jealous for. We should be hungry for intimacy with God. Not striving for the miracles, signs and wonders, works, better behavior, or improved performance.
Becoming more like Jesus with an orientation of better behavior or the motivation of improving performance creates religion. There is a pretense of Christ likeness but it comes short of being genuine and lacks spiritual power. In contrast, Christ likeness motivated by hunger for genuine intimacy with God leads to genuine faith and a life of good works without hypocrisy or religious pretense.
Abiding is a beautiful place of relationship in a position as Father’s children. Being in that relationship is a blending of oneself with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit into a “smoothie” of relationship where it becomes difficult to find where I begin and Jesus ends. In this place, His eyes do become mine, etc. Every part of who I am is His (since I am His temple/home). Abiding will naturally produce the likeness of Jesus.
Do you think that the popular approach, “What Would Jesus Do (WWJD)?” may have a fundamental flaw? I feel that if this question has its emphasis on the records of what Jesus did (performance/behavior) we are taking it out of a relational context and trying to answer it from a behavioral approach. I find it nearly impossible to determine what Jesus would do in any given situation, since what He did was so diverse and difficult to put into a formula. The only answer I can give to this question is “Jesus would seek His Father and ONLY do what He is doing and say ONLY what He would say”. Jesus operated from a place of relational intimacy. Again, this approach makes me completely dependent on my personal, intimate relationship with Father. It means I need to hear for myself what HE wants me to do or say. Of course, Jesus’ teachings and His life example is the revelation of God Himself and it is the TRUTH. But it cannot be a replacement for our personal intimacy with Father.

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