Reflection of

So God created human beings in his image.

Genesis 1:27 

 

When God created the world, notice that the only part of His creation made in His image was us?  God created us in HIS image.  He created us with the potential to reflect Him to others....do we?  Sometimes we give a shimmer of reflection, and sometimes not so much.  You see, God is love (1 John 4:8).  Because God is love, we should share God's unconditional love with others.

 

If we look at the news, we see just how cruel and inhumane we can be to each other, yet John 13:34 reminds us that we are to "Love each other as I have loved you."  Granted, some of us are more challenging to love than others, but we have not been instructed to love only those who are easy to love, rather we are to love each other (all inclusive) as God, through Christ, loves us.  If we need help loving someone, ask God to fill you with His love to the point there's no room for anything less.

To Die For

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”

Genesis 1:26

 

I was watching the History Channel, a while back, where the program was looking at Ancient Rome.  One of the things that stuck out for me were the mirrors that were found.  Now, their mirrors and our modern mirrors are vastly different.  The mirrors in ancient Rome were made of polished brass or bronze.  They were not completely smooth and therefore the image it displayed was rather distorted.  And THAT brought to mind today's verse.

 

We have been made in the image of God.  The Hebrew word used for "Image" is "Tselem" which literally means resemblance.  Therefore, we have been made in the Resemblance of God and God spends our lives working to perfect that resemblance into true image.

 

But consider this: we may be imperfect, but God perceived us before our parents conceived us so that when He calls us, He will receive us.  And because of that, He loves us so much that He knew we are worth dying for, and that is why Jesus came...so He could die for us that we might be received by God and truly become His likeness.  Children are the resemblance of their parents...  We are to be the resemblance of God, our Father!