48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2 and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord. 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, 14 for it is light that makes everything visible.
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
“While it thus humbles us, this precept ennobles us; for what a grand thing it is to be imitators of God!...Time has been when men gloried in studying Homer, and their lives were trained to heroism by his martial verse. Alexander carried the Iliad about with him in a casket studded with jewels, and his military life greatly sprung out of his imitation of the warriors of Greece and Troy. Ours is a nobler ambition by far than that which delights in battles; we desire to imitate the God of peace, whose name is love.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“Darkness is my point of view, my right to myself; light is God’s point of view.” Oswald Chambers
“Redemption means that Jesus Christ can put into any man the disposition that ruled His own life......Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.” Oswald Chambers
“Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world it is God-reliance.” Oswald Chambers
“It is not a question of our equipment but of our poverty, not of what we bring with us, but of what God puts into us.” Oswald Chambers