Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the

word, prayers, and I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I

trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Hashtag goals. I admit I use this with pictures I post on

Instagram and other places a lot of us do. We We have goals these days and I'm a goal-oriented

person myself. Lately, I was thinking about a goal I have for myself when it comes to my

Christianity. And I want to talk about it today on the show. We can call it hashtag the goal of

Christianity or whatever we want. Be right back to get into it, so stay close.

I'm different in a lot of ways from when I was younger, and then in some ways, of course,

I'm very much the same. I would say some of it's due to my age. Growing older helps in some key areas. Like, I told someone the other day, I apologize now less often, maybe more than I ever

have, because a lot of the things I used to apologize for, like maybe apologizing for my ministry

or things like that, I don't do that anymore. But when I apologize now, my apologies are much

more sincere. So maybe we'll call that quality over quantity. But I've been walking with Jesus

since I was six, and I'd like to believe that some of the areas I've changed are due to the chisling

and the refining of the Lord through the years together. If you've been a believer for a while,

I'm sure you can relate to this. The goal of Christianity ultimately is to become more like him,

for us to change to the degree we are moving closer and closer to emulating the perfect one

we love. We won't ever be him. We can't ever be perfect. But the more we walk with him,

the closer we walk with him, the more we resemble him, I believe.

We take on Christ-like qualities.

Pastor Rick Warren said it like this.

The Bible says, as the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him

and reflect his glory even more, 2. Corinthians 318.

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