If salvation was the goal of the Christian life, then the journey would be over with the first step. The life of today's Christianity cries out "There must be something more!" We leave our churchs today empty of substance, and that substance is Jesus, living, breathing, existing in each one of us. Jesus himself cries out, there must be something more when he calls out "Follow Me!" That one statement resounds through history to all of those who call themselves His disciples. The goal of the Christian life is transformation, by the Spirit of God, into Christ likeness. Paul says to the church in Galatians 4:19 "...I am in labor, until Christ is formed in you." Christ formed in us, that means the character of Jesus becoming our character, the actions of Jesus becoming our actions. An inward transformation, that results in outward manifested actions that resemble Jesus. This is grace. Grace is God's action in our lives, to bring about what we cannot by direct effort. Christians, or disciples of Jesus, are those living a life that is impossible in the natural human condition. All of this is now open to us through our trust in Jesus. To say that we trust Jesus, is to say that we place our confidence in Jesus. We don't place our confidence in something He said, or something He did, but in Jesus alone. The Apostle Peter says "..grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." That is the goal of the Christian life, growth in Jesus, and transformation of our very nature brought on by the work of the Holy Spirit in our life, through our trust in Jesus. Do we trust Him? Do we trust Him with our lives? He is calling us out of history to Follow Him, to slip our hand, into his nail scarred hand, and be with Him, learning to be like Him.