We are not put on the ground of doing things merely because we think them right. If we desired or sought to do right simply because we thought the thing right, we should be always wrong. The only true principle for a Christian is obedience. We are sanctified unto the obedience of Christ. It is the very life-breath of the new nature. It was what was found in perfection in Christ, and God now calls us to walk as He walked.
Assuredly there is immeasurable distance between the perfection of Christ's walk and our walk, but this is certain: We are bound to go forward in the same direction. The Lord may and does distance us, but we are bound to be on the same road. We are called to direct our faces to the same heaven, and we are bound to go onward, according to the measure of our strength, after Him, not away from Him.
This is what is implied in being sanctified unto His obedience. God has given us to see its perfection in Christ, but He has set us in the very same path, as He said Himself, "Follow Me." [49]