The attributes of God.

We are to have: The attributes of God. His character, His attitude.
We want His peace, His joy, His strength, His power flowing through us, but do we want to display His attributes? Do we even think that's possible? Where did He say in His word that we are not to have His attributes? When He says through Paul, "be imitators of me as I am of Christ." 1Cor 11:1 & Eph 5:1 Is it to mean exactly that, and are we to merely try, or does He not enable us to be able to be imitators of God as beloved children? Why would He ask us to and yet not empower us to? Did He not tell us that He gives us His authority, and yet He does not give us his attributes so we can be faithful representations of Him and His work?
We've all had bad service or a bad attitude from an employee at a restaurant or store we've visited. Does that not reflect directly on the establishment of where they work? And how much more does our attitude need to reflect the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords that we serve?
We all want the fullness of God, there's even movements that talk about that. But do we know that we can indeed fully be imitators of God as beloved children just as Paul talks about in Eph 5:1? It's not as if He were allowed full control of our lives, and if we allowed Him that right everyday, that we wouldn't reflect His personality more is it? If we allowed Him FULL control would He not mold us and shape us into the image He created us to be? To display His glory? To be His hands and feet? To be fully His and none of ourselves? Isn't that what He does in us? What He longs for, and what we should be longing for? And if it is something that He wants, and something that we want, isn't it like Him to be able to perform His Word in us?
He is able, though we are not, to flow through us, to perform all of His works in us completely and fully and; He wants too!! "Lord be our God, be the God that implants in us all the things necessary to be faithful servants in every way, in our hearts, our minds, in every thought word and deed may we reflect You, our King of Kings, our Lord of Lords, the Bright Morning Star, the Alpha and Omega of our lives, in Jesus Name!
Amen!