July 18, 2011 (to become like Christ)

to become like Christ

“Perhaps the most wonderful thing of all is this:
God lifts us not only from what we are
by nature to what Adam was in the Garden of Eden,
but to what Adam was to become in the presence of God,
and would have been had he persevered in obedience.
The gospel does not make us like Adam in his innocence –
it makes us like Christ,
in all the perfection of His reflection of God.”
- Sinclair Ferguson

“To become like Christ
is the only thing in the world worth caring for,
the thing before which every ambition of man
is folly and all lower achievement vain.”
- John Drummond