Image Is Everything

"We are created from Him, for Him, and in His likeness." So reads the words of my devotional book for today...there really is so much to unpack in that sentence. We are created from God, God spoke creation into existence then took some of His freshly made dirt and formed Adam, later forming Eve out of one of Adam's ribs. Truly we are created from Him, for He alone is the source of all creation, the Alpha, the beginning of time, the world, life, and you and me.

We are created for Him. Yes, we are made for God, not because He was lonely or because we were able to offer God anything but simply because of His love for us. We are made to find wholeness in Him not in others or things, but in Him!

We are created in His likeness. We are embossed with the divine seal. Engraved with the anniversary date of our salvation secured by Christ on Calvary's mount. We reflect Him the way the water reflects the sun or light bounces off a bald man's head. We are His, in every way!

"Humanity will bear His image. He will be seen in this creation. Never mind that His image-bearers once forfeited that privilege. Even before we lost it, He had determined to recraft it in us."

Image really is everything!