Note: In this post we welcome guest blogger, David Hundert. David is studying in Kairos University – Evangelical Seminary’s Master of Divinity program.
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? More importantly, when you look in the mirror, what should you see?
If we want to get a truly accurate depiction of what that answer should be, then we need to look back at the beginning. In Genesis, chapter 1, verses 26 and 27 we read,
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
We are all created to be “image bearers” of God. We were created in His image or some translations say, “in His likeness,” but what does that mean?
Take a look at God’s dialogue in verse 26, ‘Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness’…” One commentator explains,
“For God is not now first beginning to consider what form he will give to man, and with what endowments it would be fitting to adorn him, nor is he pausing, as over a work of difficulty: but, just as we have before observed, that the creation of the world was distributed over six days, for our sake, to the end that our minds might the more easily be retained in the meditation of God’s works: so now, for the purpose of commending to our attention the dignity of our nature, he, in taking counsel concerning the creation of man, testifies that he is about to undertake something great and wonderful. Truly there are many things in this corrupted nature which may induce contempt; but if you rightly weigh all circumstances, man is, among other creatures, a certain preeminent specimen of Divine wisdom, justice, and goodness, so that he (mankind) is deservedly called by the ancients ‘(microcosm)’, ‘a world in miniature.’”
Isn’t that awesome? The commentator is saying that God didn’t need to think about how he was going to create us. He did however, for our sake, make sure that the author of Genesis worded it in such a way that in all of His creation, we would realize that we are special and in spite of the fact that we are corrupted due to the fall, it was His pleasure to bestow upon us, “Divine wisdom, justice, and goodness.”
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Insightful perspective, thank you for sharing.
Thank you! I’ll make sure David sees your kind comment.