Becoming like Jesus
The short answer is he wants us to be like Jesus. What does that mean? Jesus has the proper concepts of right and wrong. None of us start out that way. The secular culture has no idea and endorses perverted lifestyles. The way to learn right and wrong is to read the Bible. One chapter of Proverbs a day is a good start. Reading what Jesus says in the 4 gospels is good. Read it over and over. Read what Paul wrote to the churches he taught. Don’t be a loafer (lazy). Earn your own money, but don’t worship it. Help others. You don’t have to be rich and powerful to impress God. You need to be faithful.
God created man to have a relationship with him and to guide him through the complicated moral choices life brings. He put man in charge of the garden or you might say the earth. But man wanted to be his own boss, not knowing it was a job he couldn’t do. God never intended to let man do whatever he wanted, because he knew man would destroy himself. He wanted a relationship where man did whatever God wanted. Jesus’ payment for our sin enables us to have this relationship.
God can fundamentally transform your life, but you have to trust him and move forward in his actions. The constant change of emotions—God is good. God is bad. I love him. I hate him.—prevent him from doing much in your life. Which is it? Is God good or not? The evil done in the world is because of sin. God allows it so that people will voluntarily turn to him without being forced. That’s the world we live in. It is not what God intended and he will correct it one day.
