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“We know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure” (1 John 3:2-3).
It is a wonderful thing to know that we are sons of God, and that when the Lord comes and takes us home, we are going to be perfectly like Christ. We will always be creatures, of course; we will not be gods. However, we now have the very life of Christ, and when He comes, we will have glorified bodies like His, and we will no longer have the old sinful nature that we have now.
But God wants this process to begin down here. If we have this hope in Christ, of being like Him then, we will want to purify ourselves now, in order to be like Him as much as possible in this world. This means that we put aside things that are not pleasing to the Lord, and things that are of this world. We already have a new life in Christ, and the Lord wants to see this new life displayed in us, more and more.
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