Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Take up more times to stay out loud with me.

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

One more time, therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

Like father like son, right?

That's the picture here when somebody says that, it's like, wow, I see your

dad in you like father like son, or I see you in your child.

This is God's design that we would walk so closely with him that we would

resemble him as the men and women as the children who are made in his image.

And so just think about this first, therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

How is your life going to resemble God today?

What a calling to resemble God in your interactions with others?

And in what you do when you're entirely alone.

Think about how that changes the way you think, what you desire.

This is what you say or what you write or what you send.

Changes how you relate to others.

Changes every facet of our lives when we say, I'm a child of God.

I want to reflect my father today, I want to resemble him, I want to imitate God.

Which is obviously only possible by the power of his spirit in us.

So we pray, God help us to imitate you today.

We want to be imitators of you as beloved children.

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