As He Did

“All he wanted was a few men who would think as he did, see as he did, teach as he did, and serve as he did. All he needed was to revolutionize the hearts of a few, and they would impact the world.”

  - Radical by David Platt

This excites me. Can you imagine a group of people who thought, saw, taught, and served like Jesus? Can you imagine the crazy power that they would have to turn their community upside down?

Because one person changes one other life who turns around and changes one life who turns around and changes yet another life, all while the first person has set about changing a second life and then a third, one life at a time.

And, the changing never stops.

The Apostle Paul encouraged the churches to “imitate me as I imitate Christ.” What if we did the same? What if our lives reeked of love and justice and the faithfulness of an ever holy God? Can you imagine a group of people who woke up each morning with no plan other than, “God, what do you have for me today?”

Every once in a while I catch glimpses of it, and it sends thrills up and down my spine.

I feel like a kid in a candy store or Madame Blueberry in Stuff Mart. It's the sort of thing that you want to grab a hold of and never let go. It's a little bit of what I think heaven might be like.

And, it's so simple. Those are things that anyone can ask of God.

“Jesus, today, this hour, this moment, let me think like you, see like you, teach like you, and serve like you.”

or, as my youth pastor used to encourage us to pray:

“God, today, do things in me and through me that I don't understand and maybe don't even believe in.”