DAY 10 - IMAGE

“So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)

God created us in his own image. How awesome it is to think that God created us to be like him. He could have made us in any way he could imagine, and believe me, God’s imagination and creativity are boundless; but he chose to create us in his own image. When he had finished, he saw to it that it was not just good, but very good. Indeed, it was perfect. Or it could have been. But being made in his image, we also had the gift of choice – free will, and we exercised that free will by choosing to disobey God in the hopes of something even better. The knowledge of good and evil. And through that choice, sin entered into the world and everything was broken. Most of all the image of God in which God had created us was broken and destroyed. But that is just the beginning of the story. God, in his infinite love and grace, chose to create a way for us to return to him and for his image to be remade in us. That is the story of the Bible, and that way is Jesus Christ.

IronMaker’s Daily Challenge:  Be ye perfect, even as God in heaven is perfect.

Prayer:  Gracious God of all, thank you for creating us in your image. Forgive us for destroying that image. Thank you for recreating that image in us through Christ.

Bob Peden