When teaching how to write the alphabet, teachers will often write the letters and have the students trace them - to learn the exact movements.  The tragedy of most believers' lives is that they don't trace Christ's life - they try to produce copies of it.  This leads to living a controlled, conceptualized and contrived life.  A life that is not genuine. But a life that walks in the Spirit - with the Holy Spirit's help - is Christ's Masterpiece living an authentic Christian life.