In yesterday’s podcast I suggested that responsiveness to the work of Jesus is at the heart of spiritual maturity. Why? Because Jesus lived like that in relationship to his Father. Consider the following:
In John 5:19-20 (NET) Jesus said, 19 “…I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. 20For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does.”
Notice that this means that the totality of Jesus’ actions were all merely a mimicking response to what God was doing. Perhaps that is why he said, “The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.” (John 12:45) Nothing he did originated with him so anyone could see God in action just by looking at Jesus in action.
Hence, the more the totality of our life is merely a mimicking response to Jesus the more it will be so that in seeing us in action others are seeing Jesus in action. That sounds to me like the essence of spiritual maturity.
