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In God’s Image A Deeper Dive
Let’s take a deeper dive into God’s own words about being made in the image of God and how we are all hardwired to desire eternal life and happiness. God made all people in His image, to reflect His goodness and character in the world.
Then God said,
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the birds of the heavens and
over the livestock and over all the earth and
over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
And God blessed them. And God said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it,
and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens
and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
GENESIS 1:26-28
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him, and
the son of man that you care for him?
Yet you have made him a little lower that the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet …
PSALM 8:3-6
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and
knit me together in my mother’s womb …
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out before a single day passed.
PSALM 139:13, 16
Reflection:
If every person is made by God (knit together in their mother’s womb) in the image of God and cared for by God, what does this say about the inherent value, equality, and dignity of every person?
On the journey with you,
Jan & Dave Dravecky
