“IT WAS VERY GOOD!”

Genesis 1:26-31                                   (ESV)

“26 Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 So GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, in the image of GOD HE created him; male and female HE created them. 

28 And GOD blessed them. And GOD said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

29 And GOD said, "Behold, I HAVE GIVEN YOU every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.

31 And GOD saw everything that HE had made, and behold, “IT WAS VERY GOOD”. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.”

There are some false prophets that claim that we are ALL god’s, that when GOD created us in HIS IMAGE, HE made us equal to HIM?  Scripture says that we are CREATED IN HIS IMAGE, or LIKENESS, not with all of HIS qualities.  One dictionary defines IMAGE as “a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.”  I have a PICTURE of my mother and picture of my grandparents on my wall.  They are NOT HERE, but their likeness remains in me because of my raising.  

GOD created us IN HIS OWN IMAGE, but THE FALL separated us from HIM.  We can only be restored to that HOLY relationship through FAITH in JESUS CHRIST.  “IT WAS VERY GOOD” is how we were CREATED to be, but THE FALL OF MAN resulted in expulsion from the Garden of Eden.   Being BORN AGAIN gives us eternal life, NOT makes us EXACTLY LIKE HIM!  GOD has NEVER sinned! HE is incapable of that!  I sin everyday, most of the time multiple times a day!  Because of our heritage, we are born with a sin nature.  JESUS CHRIST IS OUR ONLY HOPE for redemption.  HE overcame death, Hell, and the grave and lives victorious forever more.  

We can get back to “IT WAS VERY GOOD”, but ONLY through JESUS.  HE came explicitly for the purpose of saving souls.  Will you allow HIS sacrifice to be in vain?  Will you ignore the lies of the enemy and trade the things of “this world” for an eternity with OUR CREATOR?  “IT WAS VERY GOOD” can become reality for you, but ONLY JESUS can do that!!!