Made in God’s Image

“God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule…” … God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.”- Genesis 1:26, 31 Sometime today take a few moments to look at yourself in a mirror. When you do, don’t look for wrinkles or gray hairs or for things you don’t like about yourself. Try to ignore whatever blemishes you see, and, while looking at yourself, say out loud, “I am made in God’s image.”

We were made to look like God— not physically, but with the ability to love, to choose, and to communicate. ” Psalm 139:14 adds that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made” by God himself.

Perhaps it’s difficult for some of us to believe we are special.

Maybe other people have made you feel that you are insignificant and worth very little. Maybe you are in a stage of life in which you feel useless. Perhaps you are confined to your bed, unable to do the things you want to do. If so, you need to know that you are special no matter what— because you bear God’s image. You are worth more than gold!

Because we are made in God’s image, he cares about each one of us. Isaiah 49:16 says that we are engraved on the palms of God’s hands. He wants to use each one of us in his goal of renewing his creation. The New Testament describes a progressive work of God to shape us into His image. As we fellowship with God, read His Word, obey His commands, and seek to understand and reflect His character, something wonderful emerges. Or, better stated, Someone wonderful emerges. God comes out of us. We say things God would say. We do things God would do. We forgive, we share, and we love. It is as if God is scrubbing the smudge off an old coin. In time an image begins to appear.

God’s goal is simply this: to rub away anything that is not of Him so the inborn image of God can be seen in us.

This was God’s e x p l a n a t i o n through the apostle Paul.

You have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in t h e image of its Creator. — Colossians 3:9-10 We… are being transformed into His image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. — 2 Corinthians 3:18. Let us reflect the image of Godliness in everything we do and say! Please visit The Family Church 9456 Hwy 146 N Liberty, TX (Hardin, TX) or facebook live @tfchardin.