IMITATORS
OF GOD – LIVE THE LIGHT
BREAD
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly
Father is perfect.
Matthew
5:48 (NIV)
1 Be
imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2 and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and
gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians
5:1-2 (NIV)
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in
the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for
the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord. 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of
darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For
it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, 14 for it is light that makes everything visible.
Ephesians
5:8-14 (NIV)
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that
this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
2
Corinthians 4:7 (NIV)
BUTTER
“While it
thus humbles us, this precept ennobles us; for what a grand thing it is to be
imitators of God!...Time has been when men gloried in studying Homer, and their
lives were trained to heroism by his martial verse. Alexander carried the Iliad about with him in
a casket studded with jewels, and his military life greatly sprung out of his
imitation of the warriors of Greece and Troy.
Ours is a nobler ambition by far than that which delights in battles; we
desire to imitate the God of peace, whose name is love.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“Darkness is my
point of view, my right to myself; light is God’s point of view.” Oswald
Chambers
“Redemption
means that Jesus Christ can put into any man the disposition that ruled His own
life……Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently
manifested.” Oswald Chambers
“Confidence in
the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world it is God-reliance.” Oswald
Chambers
“It is not a question of our equipment but of our poverty,
not of what we bring with us, but of what God puts into us.” Oswald Chambers
HEART SAVOR
- · I am called to walk as Jesus walked. This is only possible through His all achieving power dwelling within me. 6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:6 (NIV)
- · My confidence is in Christ alone - not in my flesh which continuously fails me.
- · Light dispels the fruitless deeds of darkness.
