Understanding the path that has been laid out for you will make all the difference in the world at how your life is to be molded in the image of Christ. He established this path for you.  It is the path of perfect love.  When you center your attention on following after this path, then you will discover the secret to living as he lived. There is no path that can lead you upward like the path of love. When you discover all that this path holds, your heart will want to make this your greatest passion. 
God is love, and to follow after love is to follow after God.  However faithful we are to love will be the measuring line to how faithful we are to God. All that love holds is what God holds.  Everything that is built on love is built upon God. To follow after love is to the follow in the Master's Way.