“Be ye followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour” (Ephesians 5:1,2).

“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord,: walk as children of light” (Ephesians 5:8).

“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise” (Ephesians 5:15).

Follower of God and child of God — that is my identity, that is what I am.

What I am determines how I walk — in love (2), in light (8), in carefulness (15).

Is it unrealistic of God to expect me to place each step that way?

No. No, it isn’t unrealistic of Him. Because the greatest reality of all is that He made (and makes!) provision for me to be and to walk. Notice a few more verses from this chapter:

“Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing to water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (25-27).

Wow!