As Jesus Is So Are We In This World

This verse in the WORD of God is so powerful and it says a lot to us as the body of Christ. We are not just human beings we carry in us Christ himself. And I believe that it's time to see ourselves has a vessel of honour that God through His Son chose to live in.

Our bodies is the temple of God and we are to respect God in us by allowing Him to live in us and through us. We are so blessed that God is in us and not in animals or wood or in the air. His love for us could not live anywhere else but in his children and that is a privilege and must be appreciated as such.

1 John 4:17

Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgement; because as He is, so are we in this world.

Other translations write it this way:

This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgement: In this world we are like Jesus. - NIV

In this [union and fellowship with Him], love is completed and perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgement [with assurance and boldness to face Him]; because as He is, so are we in this world. - AMP

If God’s love is made perfect in us, we can be without fear on the day when God judges the world. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like Jesus. - ERV

This is how love has been perfected in us, so that we can have confidence on the Judgement Day, because we are exactly the same as God is in this world. - CEB

I am using different versions so has to get a full understanding of this truth that as Jesus is so are we. But unfortunately we has the body of Christ do not see ourselves like Jesus sees us.

Jesus does not see us any different from Him. And this is why I couldn't wait to write this with the help of the Holy Spirit. God loves us so much that He lives in us.

1 Corinthians 6:12 - 20

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

This is a warning from the Lord that we need to abide with. Our bodies are not ordinary bodies and whenever we do not obey the Holy Spirit we find ourselves living with the consequences of not listening to the voice of God. In us lives the presence of God, we actually carry God with us everywhere we go and that is why his name is Omnipresent and Omnipotent God. God is everywhere and all powerful God.

We cannot defile our bodies because God is in us. And not only that, we are one with the Lord in our spirit. Our Spirit and the Lord's Spirit are one. It's not possible to separate our Spirit from the Lord's once we become a child of God by accepting the gift of salvation. We are immediately joined to Him when we do this.

The Lord paid a high price for us, when he laid down his life for us. This is why the WORD of God says that we have been brought at a price.We are to honour God with our bodies and flee from anything that will make us fall into sexual immorality.

Our body is the temple of God!