Free Bible Commentary
“Ephesians 5:1-2”
Categories: Ephesians“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.”
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Little children love their parents and completely depend upon them as they develop an understanding of the world in which they live. The little ones watch mom and dad like a hawk and pick up their habits, quirks and speech patterns—for better or for worse. As parents, we must be extra careful around our little “sponges” because they are soaking up much of what we do and say, and we want to set the best example that we possibly can so that they will grow up to be loving, responsible, godly adults.
We will leave our kids the best kind of example to imitate if we pattern our lives after our perfect, loving Father in heaven. John 1:18 tells us, “No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.” Jesus “explained” or “declared” the Father to us by showing us how to “walk in love” with the perfect life that He lived. Jesus said to the Apostle Philip in John 14:9, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father.”
Jesus declared the Father to us by living righteously, lovingly and sacrificially. Jesus “went about doing good” to all people (Acts 10:38). Love was the motivation behind Jesus coming to this earth and for everything that He did as He walked upon the face of the earth. And of course, “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). Jesus stretched love to its greatest extent by sacrificing His very life in order to help us with our greatest problem and need.
When we follow the example of Jesus by waking as He waked and talking as he talked, that is a sacrifice that smells sweet to the Lord!
Please read Ephesians 5:3-5 for tomorrow.
Have a blessed day!
- Louie Taylor
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