If you could be someone else for a day, who
would you be, and why? If that seems too easy, try this one: who would you like
to have spend a day as you and what do you hope they’d learn from the
experience?
If I could,
I would be Jesus for a day. I would choose to walk the dusty path he walked on
during the height of his ministry on earth. I would know what he was thinking
and feeling when he ate with sinners and talked to the woman at the well. I
would know beyond a shadow of a doubt when God was talking to me and understand
how he would expect me to respond to every situation and each person I came
into contact with. And I would know what
true unconditional love without any hint of judgment feels like, and I believe
I would be forever changed by this experience.
Whether or
not you believe in God, there’s more than enough evidence that a man named
Jesus walked this earth for a little over 3 decades, and by those of
practically all religions, he is respected as either the divine Son or God or
at the very least a prophet and a good man. I believe all of us can benefit
from his teaching and learn from his love for all people and his undeniable
example of unwavering faith in not only God, His Father, but also in people and
their ability to turn from sin and become whole again.
No doubt if
I lived as Jesus for a day, my heart would hurt as I would be convicted of all
my own sins and mistakes in life, but I believe I would also learn how to be a
better person from this one day experience. I often try to think of how Jesus
would respond to someone I am struggling with or what decision He would make in
a challenging situation I am facing, and if I had the chance to think and feel
just as He did with the same types of people and in similar situations, I know
my heart and mindset would be irrevocably changed. I can’t really imagine what it would have
been like to live in the days of Jesus, but if I could go back in any capacity
and experience it for myself, I would do it in a second.
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