“IMAGE!”

Genesis 1:26-27                                         (ESV)

“And GOD said, Let US make man in OUR “IMAGE”, after OUR likeness: and LET THEM have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  So GOD created man in HIS OWN IMAGE, in the image of GOD created HE him; male and female created HE them.” 

One problem with “this world” is it always seems to want to “classify” others, but never wants to be one who is “classified”!  Whether wealth or lack of wealth, racial makeup, physical or mental stability, or any other way to “DIVIDE” us, all “this world” wants to discuss is our differences.  We are ALL CREATED in HIS “likeness”, but none were created to be a god!  

When ALMIGHTY GOD Created us, Genesis 1:26-27 says “And GOD said, Let US make man in OUR “IMAGE”, after OUR likeness: and LET THEM have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  So GOD created man in HIS OWN IMAGE, in the image of GOD created HE him; male and female created HE them.”  We are only HIS “IMAGE”, not HIS EQUAL!!!  The only division GOD ordained was “male and female created HE them”, and that is the one division “this world” would LOVE to do away with!  

Just like man can’t change what race he/she is born as, we cannot determine what gender we are.  GOD will not be swayed by man’s actions nor his desires, it cannot happen!  If I “decide” that I want to become something that I am not, I make myself out to be wiser than our CREATOR, which is exactly what satan did in Genesis 3:4-5.  And evidence of how that turned out is plain to SEE for those who have had their EYES opened (Luke 24:31)!

GOD IS HOLY, and I am NOT!  You are NOT!  Nobody ever born in the bloodline of Adam and Eve is HOLY!   JESUS was born when the power of the HOLY SPIRIT (Luke 1:35-38) came over her and she carried the GIFT OF GOD inside her body until “the time came for her to give birth” (Luke 2:6) and GOD became flesh (John 1:14)!  The “god of ‘this world’” (2 Corinthians 4:4) is “blinding the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the LIGHT of the gospel of the glory of CHRIST, WHO is the image of GOD”.  I share these words in an effort to help “this world” SEE that we are NOT GOD ALMIGHTY, rather simply an “IMAGE” of HIM, and we don’t need to be misled like Adam and Eve!