Oswald Chambers in the daily devotion book titled, My Utmost For His Highest, wrote: God expects my personal life to be a “Bethlehem.” Am I allowing my natural life to be slowly transfigured by the indwelling life of the Son of God? God’s ultimate purpose is that his Son might be manifested in my mortal flesh. A Christian is a person who is in Christ and in whom Christ dwells. This indwelling experience results in a new lifestyle.

In the sixth chapter of Luke, verses 39 through 49, Jesus underscores the inseparable union of what one is and what one does.

Here is an example of the humor of Jesus. If you have any doubts that God has a sense of humor, look in the mirror! It must have been with a smile that Jesus gave the parable of a person with a log in his eye trying to extract a speck of…