You cannot be like Christ, but you can walk like Him. I would not for worlds lose that God. should say, " I am jealous that you should walk like my Son." Do you say it is too much love on His part? Ah! do not you love to be set by Him as His child with the Son of His love? He would not have you in any other place than that of a son. He lets me know that He never thinks lower of me than of the Son of His love. I in Him and He in me; that is where He has set me.
According to the measure of God's love, so is His jealousy as to the walk of His children. He cannot say of any who are in Christ, " They joined to idols, let them alone." No! He would say, "I cannot let them transgress, I must come in as a Father and chastise, till I see their ways and walk changed."