The Re-created Image of God

UV 4157/10000 The Image of God So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1 v 27 We are created in the image of God and not vice versa- God is not created in our image. The image of God does not mean that we look like God or God looks like us but that we can think, feel and express, have a sense of right and wrong like God. As we are created in the image of God, we were given the authority over the earth and all in it, living and non living. We are to live as if we own the earth, sky and sea, dominate all creatures but serve each other since each is created in the image of God. No one among us, humans, are less of a ruler than the others. We represent God on earth even as we resemble God. We are to primarily use our capacity to think, feel, express as well as the faculty of conscience to be like God. There is of course, historically, a gap between who God is and who we are. God sent His Son, Jesus aka Emmanuel, aka Christ, aka Saviour and Lord to the Earth to bridge this gap by His grace. Jesus is the exact likeness of both God and man. No one has seen God, the Father but if we have seen, known, believed the Son, we have seen and known the Father. Jesus exercises godly authority over demons, over diseases, over infirmities, over sin, over death, over nature, over material objects. He willingly submitted to earthly authorities as it was the will of the Father and it pleased Him. He dominated the two things man could not dominate by virtue of His sin- sin and death. By making Jesus the “good root” of all humanity who believed His name and His word, we are grafted or added to the royal lineage of King David. The uni-verse also says that the natural order God created for procreation or multiplication of mankind is Adam and Eve, neither Adam and Steve nor Madam and Eve. As “supernaturalised” citizens of the kingdom ruled by the King of Kings, Jesus, we are to live on earth to represent the authority, the image of God on earth. Every fellow human also represents the image of God whether He acknowledges God or not. Hence, we are not to judge, condemn, mock, exploit any other human. The image of God in us is who we are projecting ourselves to be in Him, in Christ. Man believes in recreation or his pleasure and satisfaction while God believes in re-creation or making us a new creation, re-created in His image. Jesus pointedly said, “ If you who are evil know how to give good things to your children when they ask, how much more will the Father in heaven give to those who ask the Holy Spirit.” It implies that in our mission to be a new creation of God, the best and only gift we can ask or hope for is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives us the power to be the image of God on earth.