Be imitators of God!
Does that challenge bother you? How can we imitate God? He is: self-sufficient, eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omnipresent. These are qualities of God that no one can mirror. However, we are called to mirror relational qualities in our daily lives. Justice, faithfulness, goodness, love, mercy, compassion, tenderness, and forgiveness. Only by His Spirit within can we begin to measure up. The key quality for fulfilling these attributes is love.
- The practice of forgiving love
- To practice forgiving love, we must know how God forgives
- Without limit (John 6:37)
- Instantly (Luke 23:42-43)
- Totally (Psalm 103:12)
- To practice forgiving love, we must know how God forgives
- The practice of giving love
- God’s love is a giving love (John 3:16)
- What God has given us
- The practice of living love
- God’s love is practical and active
- It involves, for us, the things we must put off and the things we put on as described in Ephesians 4
- Show the qualities Jesus showed
- He never refused to heal
- He never cast people aside
- Never failed to forgive any who came to Him
- God’s love is practical and active
How can we mirror God in our lives? We can’t without His help. We need to know what He is like. Many people have a completely wrong concept of God. We need to know how He responds to people. We need to know what He will do. How do we learn this? Spend time in His Word and in fellowship with other Christians.
