DAY 174 - It's All About Relationship And Lifestyle! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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Today's Reading: Ephesians 5

Please read Ephesians 5 and listen to what the Lord Jesus Christ would like to tell you before reading my Spiritual Journal below. If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method you may click this link directly for the method:Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.


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• Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians 5&version=MSG
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Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 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. Ephesians 5: 1-2

What I heard from Jesus today is: It's all about relationship and lifestyle!

Life is all about your relationship with God whether you can be imitators of God(v.1) and whether you live a life of life just as Christ and that is Christlikeness. Nothing more, nothing less!

We have so many people to imitate but rarely try all our best to imitate God. Paul was talking about like imitating your father or your mentor that you have a personal relationship with. How is your daily intimate relationship with God? Without that you have no one to imitate, right? With that you lifestyle will be changed too because that should be the direct result of imitating someone. If you imitate Elvis, then you would dress like him and look like him. If you imitate God, then you will not do the things Paul says not do in this chapter and will do the things Paul says that you need to do in this chapter. Can you have a kind of spiritual body check up now according to the lifestyle in this chapter. And, the last part of this chapter to the first part of next chapter is about how we live out a Christlike relationship between wives and husbands, children and parents, slaves and master.

Well, as I say, it's all about relationship and lifestyle. Nothing more, nothing less!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help us to enter into that relationship and lifestyle that we will be transformed day after day to be more like you. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.

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