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Acts 11:19-30

Despite our inconsistency, God remains to be consistent in all His Word. Whatever you practice, you will perfect. That also which you continue will be consistent. God is a God of consistency and Jesus meant good from all that He required to be done in remembrance of Him. When there is a remembrance of the consistency in what Jesus did, what He said, and all His commands, there will be an undoubted manifestation of imitating Him in all areas of life. The apostle Paul required in 1 Corinthians 11:1, ÒImitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.Ó This is a clear statement of what made Paul the kind of apostle he was in his days and after he was long gone to rest. Among all the disciples that walked hand in hand with Jesus before He was lifted, there is hardly one that contributes to the New Testament like Apostle Paul. With the grace of God in place, the sense of imitating Christ must have been one of the driving forces behind the ministry committed into the hand of Apostle Paul. It was the activities of Paul and Barnabas in the Lord while in Antioch that gave birth to the word ÒChristiansÓ which means Christ like (Acts 11:26). Paul and Barnabas were living by the testimony, confession, and the word of their mouth. Are you as a believer living by the confession of your mouth or are you living by your exposure to the world? Who are you imitating? Who or whatever you imitate is what will manifest itself in your life. Imitating Christ should be a conscious and consistent drive; it should be with the purpose of heart and encouragement in the Word of God. Regardless of all the persecutions, Paul maintained his practice and consistency in the things of God. If Paul then, a man like us, was able to live a life centered on Christ, this means it is possible for man today to live a Christ-centered life. Practice is what makes perfect. Will you make a choice and to be a practicing Christian instead of a programmed Christian. That is, get out of religion and enter into Jesus reality. It is God who is able and He will enable you, if you desire it.