Seize the Moment – Day 384
Created in the Image of God!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, April 5.
How do you view people? How do you view yourself?
Genesis gives us a strong foundation of understanding the reality of humanity. Listen to Genesis 5:1-2 as it begins a genealogy of the descendants of Adam and Eve: “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created.”
We are created in the Image of God and we are blessed by God. Our origins are holy, even if our history is marked by sin. The Bible does not run from either reality. We can’t oversimplify our view of people and simply categorize them. We must see people as God created us to be!
It is important to see how the author of Genesis echoes the earlier language of Genesis 1:26-28:
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Seize the moment and worship God and in doing so, you will reflect the glory of God to the world He created.
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from John 11:25-26, when Jesus proclaims, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”