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Every Christian
should strive to be a pattern worthy of imitation - a pattern of
earnest, faithful endeavor to copy Christ in his daily life, and
of active zeal in His service.
Patterns of perfection, of the ultimate moral glory and beauty of
holiness, we cannot expect to be in the present life. Such a
pattern we have only in Christ our Lord. In no such sense did Paul
ever say, Follow me, or Follow us; but he did say, "Be ye
followers of me, even as I also am of Christ" (1Cor.11:1).
The apostle was a grand example of earnest endeavor to attain
perfection, but not of the ultimate perfection which was in Christ
only; and it is his zeal and intense earnestness in striving to
copy Christ and to accomplish His will that we should imitate.
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