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“And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth Himself, even as He is pure” (1 John 3:3).
Yesterday we saw that already we are children of God, but that we do not yet look like it. It will not be until the Lord comes that we will get our glorified bodies. However, there is one way that we can be like Christ in this world, and that is by purifying ourselves. We cannot change our bodies, but we can live and walk in a way that honors the Lord Jesus.
If we are truly saved, we have a new nature that wants to please the Lord. He wants us to let that new nature display itself in our lives in this world. It is true that none of us does it perfectly down here in this world, but when other people see the way we behave and live, they ought to realize that we belong to Christ. Today God wants us to be morally like Christ; in a coming day we will be perfectly like Him, both morally and physically.
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