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Ephesians chapter 5, verse 1.

Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children.

What a simple verse and significant verse, like this command to be an imitator of God.

Like how weighty a command is that?

Today, for you, for me to imitate God, to reflect God, to let the character of God be evident in our lives.

Like, we could just spend hours right now thinking about what does that mean?

Like the character of God, his love, imitate the love of God toward others today.

Imitate the holiness of God. Right after this in Ephesians chapter 5 we see,

may sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness not even be named among you.

So to pray that God would make us holy in every way, just as He is holy, to imitate God in this way.

You just think about the fruit of the spirit, even, that Galatians 5 gives us love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, self-control, like these are all fruits of the character of God,

his spirit living in us. So let's imitate God. So how do we do that? And I love the second part

of this verse. Ephesians 5-1, therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

Ah, this is who you are.

This is who I am.

A child of God, loved by God.

So how do we imitate God?

We look to God as our father. We love God as our Father. We live to please God our Father. We trust in the grace of God, our Father. We fix our eyes, our hearts, our minds on God, our Father.

Like I think about my kids, my youngest in particular,

my six-year-old who, when people see him, they're just like, well, that's a mini-me of you.

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