I don't know many perfect people. It's a journey. The one's who do embrace it and practice thankfulness, forgiveness, confession and dying to self, they can't help but to progress. Who we are is God's gift to us, who we become is our gift to God.
Now that wasn't so hard was it? Even though you still didn't answer the question.
No. It wasn't hard. What is it that I didn't answer? If I answered yes, do you believe you would have known what I meant by that? Let's try that. Yes, we are meant to emulate Jesus. What does that mean to you? Because I doubt that you have the depth of understanding or even agree with my understanding of what Jesus taught us to do. So I gave you an answer you would understand, we are called to do our best, it will be a journey. Those that are successful at it, will naturally progress as human beings and reap predictable rewards in this life for doing so. Is that enough? Or do you need more?