us” (Ephesians 5:1 – 2). What can such commands mean? Do they just call attention to our inability and throw us, desperate, into the open arms of God’s grace as Luther thought? Yes, but not only that. They also sketch out the way we can actually live when we have crossed the bridge from self-centeredness to generosity. These commands call us to be similar to, not identical with, God. We are not divine and cannot give exactly the way God does. But we can and should give similarly to how God gives. We