IMITATORS OF GOD
Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ:
Ephesians 5:1 starts out by saying that we must be imitators of God just like little children that imitate there fathers. It tells that Christ gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. I have often wondered just what it would take to be in love with God just like a little child without every questioning Him in anything?
I doubt that there are very many of us who are innocent enough to get to that state again because of the mistrust we have had in life. It is the goal that God wants us to strive toward however, as impossible as that sounds; and the realization that we will never achieve that goal. We try to humanize God to our own level, but that never works...sooner or later we come to realize that perfection of any kind is out of our reach.
Sometimes it feels as though no one has anything to offer God except for the bare minimum, and they would be right so why does God look on us with such desire? As I have thought about this I guess it is the same thing that makes us go crazy over a new born baby. The child although they do not have anything to offer to us have a quality to them that causes us joy and love for them. If they belong to us we almost immediately fall in love with them for no reason that they could understand. As that child grows it develops a relationship with us that grows stronger and deeper. We see them imitating us or trying to copy the things we do, and even though they always get it wrong we never stop loving them. When we think about our relationship and the perfection of that relationship in those terms it changes things a little bit.
God knows from the start of our attempt that it will not be perfect but just the fact that we love Him enough to try is huge in His eyes. I have felt so much like the little boy that brought the five loaves and two fish to Jesus knowing that it would never be enough, but bringing it anyway. The miracles never cease with people responding to the little that we bring. I have come to realize that we are not meant to see these miracles that happen to others through us because the glory should always go to God the Father. When most things happen around us we are oblivious to them for if we were not...if we stopped to think and watch along with the others we would do the same thing that Peter did while walking on the water with Christ...we would rapidly sink. As we live our lives by the Spirit of Christ there will be many things that seem strange. We may not understand why God loves us the way that He does, but that is not yet for us to know. Ours is to accept that love...believe that love is true, and try as best we can to show God how well we can imitate Him. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Ephesians 5:1 starts out by saying that we must be imitators of God just like little children that imitate there fathers. It tells that Christ gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. I have often wondered just what it would take to be in love with God just like a little child without every questioning Him in anything?
I doubt that there are very many of us who are innocent enough to get to that state again because of the mistrust we have had in life. It is the goal that God wants us to strive toward however, as impossible as that sounds; and the realization that we will never achieve that goal. We try to humanize God to our own level, but that never works...sooner or later we come to realize that perfection of any kind is out of our reach.
Sometimes it feels as though no one has anything to offer God except for the bare minimum, and they would be right so why does God look on us with such desire? As I have thought about this I guess it is the same thing that makes us go crazy over a new born baby. The child although they do not have anything to offer to us have a quality to them that causes us joy and love for them. If they belong to us we almost immediately fall in love with them for no reason that they could understand. As that child grows it develops a relationship with us that grows stronger and deeper. We see them imitating us or trying to copy the things we do, and even though they always get it wrong we never stop loving them. When we think about our relationship and the perfection of that relationship in those terms it changes things a little bit.
God knows from the start of our attempt that it will not be perfect but just the fact that we love Him enough to try is huge in His eyes. I have felt so much like the little boy that brought the five loaves and two fish to Jesus knowing that it would never be enough, but bringing it anyway. The miracles never cease with people responding to the little that we bring. I have come to realize that we are not meant to see these miracles that happen to others through us because the glory should always go to God the Father. When most things happen around us we are oblivious to them for if we were not...if we stopped to think and watch along with the others we would do the same thing that Peter did while walking on the water with Christ...we would rapidly sink. As we live our lives by the Spirit of Christ there will be many things that seem strange. We may not understand why God loves us the way that He does, but that is not yet for us to know. Ours is to accept that love...believe that love is true, and try as best we can to show God how well we can imitate Him. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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