
The Word Given: "In Our Image..."
Now, being made in His image gives us many things. One of them is responsibility to Him, our Creator.
BIBLICAL STUDIESTHE WORD GIVEN
Matt Davenport
1/27/20252 min read
Genesis 1:26-28
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So, God created man in His own image; in the image of God, He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
God's Team was busy. With all they had made it was now time to put the new residents in place. But they had to be made as well.
For this, God did not hesitate to go all the way. He made then like Himself. In His own image.
Then He took it even farther and handed control of the place over to us.
Don’t forget that we are not made in the physical likeness of God, but we are made in the spiritual likeness of God. We are spirits held in place by physical bodies.
As we talked about before, God is God, but He works with the Son and Holy Spirit. The Trinity. So, when He says, “Let US…” that is what He is talking about.
Now, being made in His image gives us many things. One of them is responsibility to Him, our Creator. Looking to the moment when Adam chose not to obey God, we see the results of self-thinking and rebellion. Many times, we fail to remember that God honored His creation by giving it a spirit like He is. Remember John 4:24 says, “God is a spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.”
So, who we truly are is a “spirit”. This is done so that when we worship God, it comes from the part of us that is the spirit. Because He is spirit, we must have that part of us, or worship cannot happen. Our spirit, recognizing His Spirit, communes to Him through that channel. But we mostly express that in our flesh.
We are also told that this spirit is dead until Christ makes us alive in Him (Ephesians 2). That is part of the reason it is called being “born again”. Which Jesus Himself demanded we must do to know the Father (John 3).
Being Born Again is not the fulfillment of our walk. There is much more. Otherwise, we would only need that part of the scripture. It is the beginning of something marvelous and miraculous. It is the awaking of our spirit and its lifelong communing with God’s Spirit. It is the start of the greatest adventure you will ever be on.
Interestingly, God gave control of creation over to those that were spiritual but had a physical existence as well. God, being a Spirit, gave flesh and blood to spirit beings and the keys to a physical realm that would tempt them away from Him.
Why do you suppose He did that?


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