Understanding Your Blessings in Christ by Elizabeth George

Author:Elizabeth George
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Lesson 15

Imitating God

Ephesians 5:1-7

Recently I received an e-mail from a mom who was writing to thank me for some principles I had shared in one of my books. She mentioned specifically how encouraged she was by the idea that it’s never too early to begin training your children in the ways of God. Just that morning, as this mother was reading her Bible at her kitchen table, her little two-year-old daughter walked in with her children’s Bible and crawled into the chair next to her mom and, opening her Bible, pretended to imitate her mom studying and reading her Bible. Never mind that the Bible was upside down!

Just as this little girl imitated her parent, we too should be imitators of God. How is this done? We imitate God by following His Son’s example.

Ephesians 5:1-7

1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.

2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

5 For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.

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