In the late 1990’s early 2000’s you may remember the colored bracelets worn by youth groups and youth pastors all over the country with the inscription W.W.J.D. I admit that I had one as well; but not a bright pink one or anything. The bracelet’s purpose was to serve as a help in time of need device, that if you were questioning a specific decision you should ask What Would Jesus Do? Once you asked that question the answer would magically appear and you would know what to do and in that particular moment in time you would be like Jesus. But isn’t this at the heart of every Christian to know the will of God and to be like Jesus? Isn’t this the goal for every Christian to be like Jesus and take on the very mind of Christ? Yes and Yes.
The more that I read the Bible and the more that I get to know my Savior the more light he sheds on my dark heart and the more I realize how I am NOT like Jesus. Jesus throughout the Gospels was preaching and teaching so much that he rarely had time for any sleep or alone time, but still through the craziness of life he still had compassion on those around him. I tend to get grumpy when I haven’t had any sleep and people demand things from me and sometimes compassion is the farthest from my emotional state. This is just one area where I fall short. A more accurate verb for the Christian life is BECOMING like Jesus.
