Discipleship starts with hope:
This journey starts with the hope of becoming like Jesus. It ends in purity. No more identity confusion. No more frustration feeling like we are never enough. No more corruption tainting our person. We reach our full potential when we identify with Christ. May our cry be, “Make me like you!”
John, the “beloved disciple” said, “Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.”
1 John 3:2-3 ESV
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