In Genesis we meet the first humans created by God – Adam and Eve. When God creates humanity, he makes them distinct and set apart from all the rest of creation. They are the pinnacle of God’s creation and after God makes them, he looks at his whole creation and says it is “very good.” One way that God set humanity apart from the rest of his good creation was to make them in his own image. You are an Image Bearer.
“Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…’ So, God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
What does it mean to be made in the image or likeness of God? What does that say about who we are that we are bearing the image of God? First, we have to notice that in order to know ourselves, we have to know the One in whose likeness we were created.
Romans 1:19-20 says, “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.”
This passage reveals that all of creation, including humanity, points to its creator – the Almighty God, maker of heaven and earth. We are “without excuse” in seeing characteristics of God in his created world. If we are to truly know who God says that we are, it is so important to know who God is.
Coming up in our weekly devotional videos, we will be diving more into what it means exactly to be made in the image of God. For now, remember that we have to know God and whose image we are bearing, then we can know how humanity reflects who God is.
Prayer: Lord God, creator of heaven and earth, thank you for creating us in your image. Your creation is wonderful and beautiful, and I know that you made humanity in a special way. Open my eyes to see the ways that you have created me in your image. Help me to know you more by seeing who you are in all that you have created.