And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. - Gen. 1:26-27 KJV
God, the creator of the universe is so majestic, so great, so grand that we are unable to fully understand him. One of the things I have had the most trouble comprehending is how can we be created in God's image when he obviously must be much larger than us if he holds the entire universe in the palm of his hand. I could never get comfortable with the idea that we were just miniature replications of God.
My thinking has changed somewhat after observing the death of my mother. I watched her body deteriorate and her mind fail, but she never lost her desire to see heaven and her Savior. On the morning of her death, when I held her hand for the last time, I became acutely aware that the earthly body which she left behind was nothing more and had never been anything more than the outside covering. Just a shell, like one that the hermit crab lives in for a while then abandons for a bigger and better model. Our spirit, the essence of life, is the being that was created in God's image.
As Jesus, God's own son told the woman at the well, "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." - John 4:24 KJV
If anyone knew the Father, knew what the essence of God was, it was his Son. How different our lives would be if we could see the world, our lives, all of the material surroundings as the temporary fixtures they truly are. What would the next year bring if that knowledge permeated our existence...if we saw ourselves as we truly are, spirit beings created in the image of God?
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