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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
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IMITATING THE FATHER

This entry was posted on 06-16-2008 and is filed under uncategorized.

"Therefore be imitators of God as dear children" (Eph. 5:1 NKJV).

Yesterday was Father's Day. Most children want to imitate their father. I did. Perhaps you did too. I actually followed in my father's footsteps, becoming a minister of the gospel just like him. The New Testament in Modern English (Phillips) reads, "As children copy their fathers you, as God's children, copy him."

We cannot copy the natural attributes of God for they are non-transferable. God is incomparable, invisible, inscrutable, unchangeable, unequaled, unsearchable, infinite, eternal, all-powerful, ever-present, all-knowing, et al. But we can copy (imitate) the transferable moral attributes of God. Our heavenly Father is a good God. Goodnesses is something we can strive to imitate. God is holy, impartial, and longsuffering. Those are things we can work on. God is love. We can be more loving. God is filled with mercy. We can be merciful. God is truth. We can have a love of the truth and take our stand for truth.

Since we are the children of God, let us imitate our Heavenly Father. Only then can we be the godly people He wants us to be.

Hymn: "Only to be what He wants me to be, every moment of every day; Yielded completely to Jesus alone, every step of this pilgrim way. Just to be clay in the Potter's hands, ready to do what His Word commands; Only to be what He wants me to be, every moment of every day" (Norman J. Clayton).