Mysterious as the Image of God is (and hard to define!) yet there are characteristics we can glean from observing Jesus and how He talked about His relationship of reflecting God’s perfect Image. What is reflection, but a return or display of something without absorbing it? We do not absorb the Image of God and […]
How many of us, when betrayed, would cut off the betrayer and never again have a relationship? God’s answer was to continue relationship. I’d argue that reality (i.e. relationship) is part of the Image of God and why I believe humanity alone bears this Image. Speaking of humanity in Hebrews 2:7 “’You made them a […]
. . This year’s Lent Devotional Series “Created to Display His Image” resumes tomorrow after today’s Sabbath rest to meditate and worship. Today, reflect on Jesus’ words that He is personal and knowable.
. Adam and Eve, perfect in their initial Creation, decided that reflecting God’s Image wasn’t good enough. They wanted to be exactly like God, independent, and be gods themselves. God had to have been heartbroken. Genesis 3:22 “And the LORD God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. […]
. One of the most beautiful things about the Image of God is the fullness of expression. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the […]
. Adam and Eve bear God’s Image equally. Jesus may have been male while He clothed Himself with humanity, but it doesn’t mean God is male or that Eve was just an add-on…or like Prince Harry, “Spare.” Or like her existence was only to take over if Adam dies and God needed someone to keep […]
. In all of Scripture’s narrative of Creation, there’s only one time God says something is “not good.” Genesis 2:18 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild […]
. In a recent installment of daily devotional thoughts regarding our having been Created in His Image, I said that “arguably” angels have not been made in God’s Image. Today, I will explain why I believe the great theologian Calvin (who seems to have held a different opinion) is wrong. Calvin points to Matthew 22:30 […]
. 1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! We have been created to be like God so much so that He’d call us His children. Focus for Lent: As a rational and relational Being, God […]
This year’s Lent Devotional Series “Created to Display His Image” resumes tomorrow after today’s Sabbath rest to meditate and worship. Today, reflect on the mystery of God’s Image.
