how are we created in GOD’s image? what does it mean when the bible says we’re created in GOD’s image, GOD’s likeness?
some brand-new believers think that means that GOD must look like we do. that must mean HE has a body, legs, a photocopy of GOD, a fax of what GOD looks like. it’s not talking about that. JESUS told us very clearly in john 4, GOD is a spirit and those who worship HIM worship him in spirit and in truth.
but we’re created in GOD’s image SPIRITually. so what does that mean? well we’re created in GOD’s image because of our personality.
the way that we’re made – our mind and our will and our emotions are all a part of our personality. my mind and the way that i think. we think in different ways – we’re different people – but we think as human beings. we have a personality that thinks. we have a will. we decide. that's part of our personality. we have emotions. we feel.
GOD thinks, GOD decides, GOD feels.
animals don’t think. not like we do. they have instincts, but they don’t think. i know sometimes you look at your dog and you wonder if that dog thinks. but your dog never sits there and looks at you and wonders if you’re thinking. we’re different. GOD’s made us differently. because of that we have a personality. insects don’t decide; they have instincts. plants don’t have feelings. if they did the ones in some of your offices would feel very hurt right now because you haven’t watered them recently. in fact they’re dead – they wouldn’t have any feelings!
we’ve got a personality – an ability to think, an ability to feel, an ability to decide about life. that’s a part of what it means to be created in GOD’s image. i need to take that personality – the way i think, the way i feel, the way i decide – and use it to reflect GOD’s choices and GOD’s heart and GOD’s thoughts. when i do that i'm living out what it means to be created in GOD’s image.
just a thought from the front porch…
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