Transformed into his Likeness

How do we become more like Jesus in the way he lived, spoke, and ministered? The answer lies in our posture of worship.  Jesus is the person of Spiritual development and only in beholding him through worship, can the real change in our lives really take place.  Look at the scripture below by Paul.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 2 Corinthians 3: 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.                                                                           

So, how do we become more like him?  The context of these verses speaks to when Moses would spend time with God face to face (Exodus 33-34).  As Moses would spend time with God, his head would literally glow from being in God’s presence and he would have to put a covering on his head to hide it.  Paul references this experience of Moses here and relates it to how we become more and more like Christ.  Just as Moses looked at the glory of God and it brought about some transformation, it transformed him only temporarily, as the glowing eventually faded away.   Paul says it is different in our looking at Jesus in worship.  This “beholding” transforms us into his likeness with an ever-increasing glory.  The more we behold him, the more we are transformed into his likeness.  The more we are transformed into his likeness, the more we live our lives like he lived his.  This does not happen overnight, but it happens with an ever-increasing process, but only when we behold him.  We cannot stay away and not think about him and expect to learn more of Christ.  We have to come to him and see who he is as God and what he has done for us in both his life, death, and resurrection.                                                                                                                                                                                   Worship happens when we treasure Christ above everything else.  Treasuring him means that we think that there is nothing or no one more valuable than him.  Jesus died so that we can be in relationship with him and nothing deepens that relationship more than the beholding of Jesus as God.  He is the key to our development and it makes perfect sense that if we are to become more and more like him, that we would spend time seeking after his glory.