After looking at the way things are on this earth, here’s what I’ve decided is the best way to live:  Take care of yourself, have a good time, and make the most of whatever job you have for as long as God gives you life.  And that’s about it.  That’s the human lot.  Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what’s given and delighting in the work.  It’s God’s gift!  God deals out joy in the present, the now.  It’s useless to brood over how long we might live. ~ Ecclesiastes 5: 18 - 20 Message Bible ~

To be like Christ is spiritual maturity that is never instant or automatic.  In fact, it is progressive development that will take the rest of our life.  Most people know about God but that's quite different from knowing God.   We are learning of HIM, to live in such a way that those who know us but don't know God, will come to know God because they know us.  So LET'S BE CLEAR, we are not called to be like other Christians, we are called to be like CHRIST. 

~ Romans 8:29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many bro