Believers, how hard do we strive to be like GOd?

Question

We are here to take care of one another. God is Love and kind. If God lives within us, then we should be Loving and kind too right? God provides, we provide, God forgives, we forgive, God dont hate people, we dont hate people. If God Love, then we Love.
We are to strive to be like God. So when people see those who believes in God.People see that God lives within (our) hearts. The only thing we are not suppose to be is the Judge.

Mathew 25:34-40

"Then I, King, shall say to those at my right, 'Come, blessed of my Father, into the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world. For I was hungry and you fed me; I was thirsty and you gave me wter; I was a stranger and you invitded me into your homes; naked and you clothed me; sick and in prison, and you visited me.'

Proverbs... continue

"THen these righteous ones will reply, 'Sir, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you anything to drink? Or a stranger, and help you? Or naked, and clothe you? When did we ever see you sick or in prison, and visit you?

"And I, the king will tell them, 'When you did to these my brothers you were doing it to me!

Answer 1

Toil night and day, by the sweat of your brow.

Answer 2

As a Christian we are to cease from striving!!!! (Ps. 46:10; Heb. 4:9-11)

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10for whoever has entered God’s rest has also(A) rested from his works as God did from his.

11Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so(B) that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

The works we now do aren't for salvation they are a result of salvation. We do work but it's not our works, it's HIS works THROUGH us! And this is from a place of rest. He accomplished salvation for us through His Work on the cross. Now because He's living in us, we die to our own need to save ourselves through religious work and let Him do His redeeming work through us out to the world! These works He does are both good and supernatural!! We can do the works He saw the Father do, only because it's really Him doing them in and through us! God Bless you!

Answer 3

It's a daily struggle but its the Holy Spirit within me that does the work because I am nothing like Him. No matter how hard I try I will fail. That's why I have the Holy Spirit to help me and teach me how to be like Him

Answer 4

if we truly love YESHUA we do these things naturally.
it becomes a part of our lives ( like a reflex) and we
find ourselves giving joyfully. the love of the RUACH
HAKODESH becomes our means of overcoming the
flesh. the more ADONAI is our center of worship the
easier it is to forget this world of pain and transcend
to our CREATOR the TRIUNE GOD. then our lives
revolve love.
great question Nikki. thank you. may YESHUA always
Bless You!

Answer 5

We are not like God. All we can do is to strive to be the best that we can possibly be. Humanity is the product of God not His clone! We have free will.......what the angels clashed about and why satan is in Hell is our predicament! Why we are what we are is what we do.

Answer 6

Pretty easy to be complacent on that one - we have to love God with all our heart, soul and all our mind.

Answer 7

Too long, I couldn't get past the first question. I see the problem, God = violent, vindictive, SOB Christians = God
Christians = violent, vindictive, SOBs

Answer 8

We become more like God (Jesus) when we suffer. Sad but true.

Answer 9

God’s Way Is Love

IMITATE THE TRUE GOD

How vital, therefore, that we heed the apostolic admonition: “Become imitators of God, as beloved children.” (Eph. 5:1) Doing so is a safeguard against becoming imitators of any false gods. But who is the true God that we are urged to imitate? The inspired Bible psalmist answers, addressing that One: “You, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” (Ps. 83:18) It is because of his Creatorship of all things that Jehovah is indeed GOD, as the prophet Jeremiah explained: “Jehovah is in truth God. . . . He is the Maker of the earth by his power, the One firmly establishing the productive land by his wisdom, and the One who by his understanding stretched out the heavens.” (Jer. 10:10-12) When we consider the vastness of the universe, with its billions of starry galaxies, truly how small and insignificant we are compared to the Great Creator, Jehovah! The very thought of imitating Him may seem staggering to our imagination. How is it possible?

13 It is possible because of the way Jehovah God created us. The Bible explains: “God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.” (Gen. 1:27) Being made in God’s image does not mean that humans were made so as to look like God, but, rather, that God put in the first humans the potential, the ability to exercise His own qualities. They became his children. And does not a son tend to act like his father, or a daughter like her mother? In fact, sometimes a son is so much like his father that he is called “a chip off the old block.” And so it should be with us. For recall that we are urged to “become imitators of God, as beloved children.” (Eph. 5:1) But how can we show that, as beloved children, we are imitating the true God Jehovah, and not any false gods?

14 Looking again at the apostolic admonition, we find the principal way that we can show we are imitating God. It says: “Become imitators of God, as beloved children, and go on walking in love.” (Eph. 5:1, 2) Yes, Jehovah God is the very personification of love. (1 John 4:8) The inspired Bible psalmist writes: “Jehovah is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and great in loving-kindness. Jehovah is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works.”—Ps. 145:8, 9.

15 We prove that we are worshipers of Jehovah by imitating his loving, merciful qualities. We are urged to do this, even as God’s Son Jesus Christ said: “Continue becoming merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Also, the apostle Peter wrote: “In accord with the Holy One who called you, do you also become holy yourselves in all your conduct, because it is written: ‘You must be holy, because I am holy.’”—Luke 6:36; 1 Pet. 1:15, 16; Matt. 5:44, 45.

16 Just imagine how desirable it would be if everyone on earth would imitate Jehovah God, “and go on walking in love”! There would be no unholy, wicked conduct—no stealing, no fighting, no immorality; in fact, no one would do anything to hurt others. Rather, all would treat their fellows with kindness, love and mercy, for that is the example set by God. Would you like to live when everyone does God’s will and walks in love? You can, for it is Jehovah God’s purpose that only such persons continue to live on earth. God’s recorded promises are soon now to be fulfilled. This means an end to this world of wicked mankind, followed by a righteous new system of things for those doing his will.—1 John 2:17; 2 Pet. 3:5-7, 13.

17 However, to qualify to live forever in Jehovah’s new system it is vital that you now become an imitator of God. This requires a personal effort on your part to get to know Jehovah, for the vast majority of mankind are, whether they realize it or not, imitating “the ruler of this world,” Satan the Devil. “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one,” the Bible explains. And do not the characteristics of the nations reflect that their real god and ruler is indeed Satan the Devil?—John 12:31; 1 John 5:19; 2 Cor. 4:4.

18 But true Christians are different. “They are no part of the world,” Jesus said. (John 17:16) They keep separate from this world’s politics and unrighteous ways, for they must serve as ambassadors or envoys of God’s government, properly representing Jehovah God, even as we read: “We are therefore ambassadors substituting for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us.” Is it not true that only if we reflect God’s personality it can be said that God himself is making entreaty through us?—2 Cor. 5:20.