The best way to become models of Jesus is to live in the Holy Spirit. When we live in the Holy Spirit we do not just stay there and wait for the Spirit to work in us. The Holy Spirit is already given to us when we receive the sacraments – when we were baptized and confirmed. The Holy Spirit is already within us. It just maybe is dormant.
How do we do this? We surrender to it. We surrender to God. We offer ourselves to the Lord, giving up our worldly desires and making ourselves vulnerable to become a different person molded into a better version. The Holy Spirit can change us. The Holy Spirit will be the one leading our lives.
All we have to do is to pray and to love. We spend more time with the Lord so we become more familiar with His leading. We grab opportunities to love so we stretch our hearts and see the Lord in every person, that eventually we will be reminded of the Lord in everything see.
When we have the Holy Spirit, we fulfill what is written in Acts 1:8, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” We ask what will be the purpose of the power? Power to do what? To offer ourselves to other people. To lay down our lives to other people in whatever race, color, faith denomination they are. In other words to be loving. To magnify Christ. To be Christ to other people.
I would like to compare my personal approach to the Holy Spirit as to one’s greatest dream. If I want to be the best in my field, say for example the best basketball player, if I follow what my coach says I will surely become the best basketball player. The coach has the power to make the best athlete. This is similar to o the Holy Spirit, He is telling us I will and I can make you a saint, do you want me to live in you?