Matt.10.:25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his master
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A little sentence in the midst of a huge speech presses us with the nose on the message of what a disciple is: We are destined to look like Jesus Christ, who is in the image of the Father.
This is so big! How can you say words here, think about how Jesus acted, what He said ... and so may we be.
With this purpose we have been created, in His image and in His likeness.
What an identity and what we sometimes seem far removed from it.
Sometimes when you look at yourself, doubts and despair sometimes turn around.
Because because of the Fall, a bucket of mud came over that divine image of man. Pieces of man's image were removed and tied up. The human image of God was thrown into the earth by the evil one with lies, crushed flat and made small. In order not to give all, all, all the potential that God has placed in it, space. Some people seem to be torn apart into hundreds of small snippets, so that the divine image of the human being can not be seen.
But however degraded we are as humans, God does not give up.
Jesus shows that God has the power to restore, heal, redeem and deliver.
And in the Divine image of man, He has given us the same power to help bring every person He gives us to the Divine image of man.
How can you know that God did not give up with us? That question may come over you if you look at yourself with human eyes. Realize that God also has the power to destroy us, to deliver death. He could have wiped away all mankind with the flood, but He did not do it. No one has obliged Him to send His Son and show healing. But He did it. And He has not excluded anyone. God did not say: I do this restoration for everyone except ....... Judas was also embraced by Him to be allowed to come to recovery.
God takes the time for that restoration, there is no question of giving up. Some things go fast, through a miracle a direct intervention from God, and other things are restored in a process of relationship with Him.
The Greek word for disciple "mathetés" also means pupil. That means that we are learning. God has time and space for the learning process and values it. Otherwise He might just as well have replanted everything in us in a divine way, but He calls us disciples.
It does not matter if you have already progressed a little in your recovery process to your divine identity or if you are still looking at a lot of brokenness in yourself, we are students.
Learning to become like Him.