IN HIS IMAGE
"Then God said, “Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth."
27 So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."
Just as the above passage reads, being created in the image of God, does not necessary mean physical attributes or physical form but a spiritual personality, a spiritual likeness and form.
- Physical Expression
The Godhead is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, so also man is made up of Spirit, Body and Soul in the likeness of the Godhead! How amazing is this! Even though these three are different, yet they are one and the same.This will help us understand Trinity.
Even though the body, spirit and soul are different, they are one and the same person. Jesus was the physical expression of the Godhead, God in the flesh destined to carry out the divine purpose here on earth.
Colossians 2:9:
"9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity (the Godhead) dwells in bodily form [completely expressing the divine essence of God]."
Therefore, just like Jesus, you have been created to carry out a divine purpose on earth giving full expression to the divine on your inside.
- Spirit Beings
John 4:24:
"God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
In other words, if we are created in the image of God, we are spirit beings, alive to carry out the mandate of God in the physical. Therefore, we live from the inside out, just like Jesus did.
Look at John 5:19:
19 So Jesus answered them by saying, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself [of His own accord], unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever things the Father does, the Son [in His turn] also does in the same way."
I pray that this understanding of the image of God in which you were created, not necessarily in physical form but a spiritual personality,shed light to who you really are in Him, that you may live to carry out His mandate in the physical. Amen.
Yours in the walk...
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