“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”
(Ephesians 5:1–2, ESV)
Be an Imitator of God
Have you ever spent time with a small child or baby and had them mimic your every sound or action? To them it’s a fun game, but internally, they are learning by watching and copying everything you do. They just observe and do the same thing. That’s because we are all wired to be imitators.
Even as adults, just like little children, we are all still imitators. So many people today end up imitating what they see in the world, on TV, in the news and magazines. But scripture tells us that we are to be imitators of God and follow His example of love.
If you need to make a change in your life today, change what you are imitating. Change your focus. The more you focus on the Word, the more you will imitate God. When you do things God’s way, you will get God’s results—peace, joy and blessing all the days of your life!
A Prayer for Today
“Father, I choose to put You first in my life and imitate You. I set aside the things of the world and invite You to search my heart and mind. Give me Your heart of love and let me be an example of Your goodness in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
I always said it that I am my own God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Atheism is on the rise around the world.
A growing number of people, millions worldwide, say they believe that life definitively ends at death – that there is no God, no afterlife and no divine plan. And it’s an outlook that could be gaining momentum – despite its lack of cheer. In some countries, openly acknowledged atheism has never been more popular.
ATHEISM: -‘The belief that there was NOTHING, and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded (for no reason), creating everything and then everything magically rearranged itself, for no reason whatsoever, into self-replicating bits which then turned into life’.
Seriously?,
LOL – To any science-based person worth his/her salt, this sounds like the beginning of a very funny JOKE.
Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
. Religion easily has the best bullshiiit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
There is no god, and that’s the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
The Bible says that we can see HIS handiwork in all things. Even if there was someone who never heard of God or Jesus he would have an inkling that God existed just by looking at His handiwork in nature. As for science…God created this universe and placed it into motion. Science is not a stranger to Him. We’re still trying to uncover the “mysteries” but it is all known to Him. Maybe someday Mr. Gillette you will see this. I pray for your enlightening. Its not or never too late.
The Bible says, “God is not mocked”. Unbelievers exits at every level. in business, government and even in churches. Some have doubt, some outright reject a God and therefore never get to have the fellowship and feel the love of a creator, friend and savior. I choose to accept His existence and further to place my trust in Him to fulfill the many promises and guarantees He gives to those who, in faith, come to Him and place their trust in Him. Its ok if you don’t believe. Thats why we have a choice. My choice puts me with Him for eternity, yours doesn’t. Even if you don’t believe I can still as God to Bless you today. I know that I am and for that, I am grateful/
If a simple thing like a paper clip requires a maker to exist, what more a massively complicated brain?
They gave us the scriptures and while we were busy reading the scripture they looted the continent. Tell them how God loves them, turn the other cheek when I slap you, the slave should be subservient to the master. All those verses to make people timid and submissive. Bring the image of a white man as the son god, give them the impression that God is white and let them bow down to the white missionary.
Unfortunately most people are scared of breaking away from the shackles of mental slavery. They still believe the crap fed to them by the white man reinforced by their parents. Intellectually handicapped because they can’t think outside the box. Centuries’ old box