I Believe - Am I Becoming Like Jesus?

9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. —Romans 10:9-10 NIV

Greek - pisteuó - To place my trust with or I am entrusted with

Test and evaluate yourselves to see whether you are in the faith and living your lives as [committed] believers. Examine yourselves [not me]! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves [by an ongoing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test and are rejected as counterfeit? —2 Corinthians 13:5 AMP

Am I with Jesus?
Am I becoming like Jesus?
Am I doing as Jesus did?

Am I Becoming Like Jesus?

And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross daily [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me]. —Luke 9:23 AMP

“This is the first and most important goal of apprenticeship to Jesus: to be with Him, to spend every waking moment aware of His presence and attentive to His voice. To cultivate and with-ness to Jesus as the baseline of your entire life.” —John Mark Comer

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— —John 14:16 NIV

“The fundamental mistake is to begin with ourselves and not God. God is the center from which all life develops.” —Book - Run with the Horses

Am I Becoming Like Jesus?

13 “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. —John 17:13-19 NIV

Hagiazó - Set Apart, Making Holy

“We are practiced in pleading inadequacy in order to avoid living at the best that God calls us to.” —Run With the Horses - Eugene Peterson

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. —Galatians 5:22-25

18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. —2 Corinthians 3:18 NIV

18 So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. —2 Corinthians 3:18 NLT