In God's Image

 Made in God's image means I look like God.

Things I used to believe about God that now I believe were incorrect.

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.for women only*

Please note this Blog is shifting focus away from art.

Groundwork.

I believe God's word is infallible.   2 Tim 3:16. "All scripture is God breathed."  My church may teach something different.  I may disagree with God.  But in the end, His Word stands.

It is impossible for God to tell a lie.  Hebrews 6:18.  If I believe scripture is saying two opposite things, then I have misunderstood scripture or it was poorly translated/transcribed.

Now to today's "past misunderstanding of scripture". 

Genesis 1:27 "And God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

It is easy to believe that "made in our (God, Christ and Holy Spirit) image" means we look like God, but I am coming to the understanding that it means something deeper, something very different.

Colossians 1:15 " Who [Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation,"

2 Corinthians 4:4  "In whom the god of this age [Satan] has blinded the thoughts of the unbelievers that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine on them."

We were created to receive God's Holy Spirit. Humans were the only creation of God with the capacity to receive His Spirit. As Nee points out, We are like a glove perfectly fitted to receive "God's hand".  We were created as a perfect vessel to receive God's Holy Spirit.

Unfortunately,  that has all been spoiled as we have adopted the sinful nature which has been passed down from generation to generation beginning with the first created humans - Adam and Eve.

Instead of holding the Glory of God, we are born with a tiny spirit that is self-serving and un-holy.

It is only through the Life of Christ that we can be restored to be what God created humans to be from the beginning.  Vessels of the Living God.

Paul asks believers in 1 Corinthians 3:16. "Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?"

As believers we are now driven by the Holy Spirit within us that begins the work of replacing our sinful nature.  Hallelujah!

Here are the fruits of the Holy Spirit:

Gal 5:22-25

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

5:23 Meekness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

5:24 But they who are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh [sinful nature] with its passions and its lusts.

5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."

I encourage us all to be God-driven with His Holy Spirit within us as God intended it from the beginning of man-kind.

If you have not received Christ as your Savior, you can do that today.  Pray a prayer to God and repent of your sins which have separated you from Him, and believe into the saving grace of Jesus Christ.  Jesus is the ONLY way to make things right with God.

*  Scripture is clear that as a woman I cannot teach or have  authority over any man.

I am thankful to Bible teachers, especially my husband Dale, who have helped me understand God's Word better. Karla