Splitting Image

Someone told me today that my daughter looks just like me.  She used the term “splitting image”.

I was thinking about how we are made in God’s image.  (Genesis 1:27)  We are a reflection of his character.  We were made to resemble God.

Man was created as a rational, volitional being.  We can reason and make choices.  This is a reflection of God’s intellect and freedom.  When a man uses his artistic ability to create a beautiful work of art, he is reflecting God’s creativity.  When a man writes a computer program, he is reflecting God’s logic.  Anytime a man writes a book, enjoys good music, names an animal, or does a calculation, he is showing God’s image.

Morally we were created in righteousness and were a reflection of God’s holiness. God looked at His creation and called it very good.  Whenever someone praises good behavior or feels guilty, he is confirming that he is made in God’s image.

Man is a social being and was created for fellowship.  This is a reflection of the trinity.  God made women because it wasn’t good for man to be alone. 

While we are image bearers of God, we also bear the marks of sin.  The good news is that through the grace of God we can be redeemed from the sin that separates us from God.  Through Christ we are a new creation.

 

“and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”  Ephesians 4:24

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”  Ephesians 2:8-10

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:17-19

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