Jason Helopoulos

Not quite sure how that works.

But there's often an intellectual resemblance.

and there's an emotional resemblance.

Why?

Because they've dwelt together for so long that they've begun to look like each other and sound like each other and be affected by the same things.

The Christian, as he or she spends time with his or her Lord, there's just a resemblance that begins to happen.

We just get conformed more and more to his likeness because we've just been dwelling with him.

That doesn't happen overnight.

It takes time.

We're not looking for perfection in the moment.

We're looking for progress over time.

But habits form persons.

And so we attend daily to spending time with our Lord and our Savior.

And it begins to shape us.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

The Christian life isn't built in a day.

I love that parable of the farmer who Jesus says goes out and he sows the seed in the field and then he goes in and he lays down for the night and he goes to sleep.

Now, he would be an awful farmer if he sowed the seed in the field and he said, I can't believe it's not growing.

What's wrong?

No, it's a good farmer that lays down for the night.