I get this question all the time: "So, ... how do I become like Christ?"
Thoughts?
What do you do? Where do you go? How do you engage in the process?
Keywords: change, christllikeness, Jesus, spiritual formation, transformation
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August 28, 2008
Posted by Damian Gerke @ Spiritual Formation
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For me I have found that taking a few days of solitude... just me, my Bible and a notebook has helped greatly. I have the opportunity to use a little hermotage that some local Nuns have put together for this much needed time with the Lord. He has formed me more into the image of Christ during these times. It's not always fun... sometimes I feel like a hunk of steel to form through melting and hammering. But it's always good.
I have also experienced becoming more Christ like through attending a prayer summit with some pastor friends of mine. This is time totally yielded to what the Holy Spirit desires to do in each man. I'm going to another one at the end of September and expecting Jesus to change me again. I have a long way to go.
Absolutely Tim. This kind of recousion or "hermitage" experience marks all the guys I look to as exemplars - John the Baptist, Benedict, Francis of Assisi, Fursa, Aidan, Wesley, Simeon - and can I include Jesus? Is it tautologous to say that Jesus would often withdraw to lonely places to pray - in order to become Jesus-like?!
To really pray, to really think and to really feed on the word takes time and concentration - just the same as to really do anything else. Jesus himself talked about the need to "go to your room and close your door" in order to get that experience conversation with God. You can't go better than His advice eh?
So Tim, I'm with you all the way as to reclusion. How often do you get to have your hermitage-times?
I guess that's the hearing bit. Then comes the doing...