The word for today is - Image !

Good morning,

The word for today is - Image !

 

We know that, we are created in God's image because the Bible tells us so. Read in Genesis 1:27, So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  Now, this event happened before the fall of man, but we know that we are still in some sense created in the image of God. Read, 1 Corinthians 11:7,For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. Also Genesis 9:6 imposes the death penalty because of the fact that man is made in the image of God. The words "image" and "likeness" used in Genesis 1:26-27 express the idea of the whole man being created in this way. I was reading a book today by Myles Munroe, it's awesome! One part he talked about the image of God. God pronounces that we are: " You are the Body of Christ". In verse 26, 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. God has given man free will, which likewise reflects God's image. Every man has the ability to choose for himself his actions. He is morally aware. Man understands that certain things are good and certain things are evil. One of the ways the image of God manifests itself in man is that only man can be aware of God and is capable of fellowshipping with Him. This part of man was exercised freely in the Garden before the fall. All men still are able to comprehend God's existence, but none are able to fellowship with Him unless they have been born again in Christ. So, let's look at 2 Corinthians 3:18, But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Read Colossians 3:10, And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. Thank you God for your word. Amen !