Made in His Image!

For Thursday, January 2, 2025:

Genesis 1:27 NLT: “So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”

God was binge-creating, to use a modern term. For a while there he created one thing after another – light and darkness, dry land and oceans, plants, birds, fish, animals, and finally mankind! He could have just made another variation of the zebra. (I guessed that was the last animal created since its name begins with ‘Z’.) (Pun! – Adam actually gave the animals names! But we digress…)

God is a spirit-being, and we, having been created in his image, are also spirit beings, living in borrowed bodies. We were created to be top-of-the-food-chain here on earth. We were given brains, intelligence and reasoning. God wants to be companions with us, to walk alongside us. He didn’t want to hang with a bunch of dorks!

In God’s infinite wisdom, he must have known that we would let him down from time to time. So he also planted in us the concepts of repentance, forgiveness, second-chances, do-overs and most of all true love for God and our fellows.

Created in God’s image, we stand with the best!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus In the City Fellowship