In the Image of God

In The Image of God

Saturday, 4 October, 2025

6:56 AM

We read in Genesis that we were created in the image of God.  In my mind that means we look like him.  Though we each have our own personality and our own mind the outside of us looks like him. 

 

When I think of my children I can see some of me in them.  The freckles.  The white skin.  Even some of the mannerisms are there but those can be formed by them living with me from their early childhood until early adulthood.  The same with characteristics.  It's always entertaining to hear some of my words come out of them in the later years of life just as when I make statement that my own mother used to make.

 

These are all human traits but what about the spirit of each of us?  My children were raised from the beginning to believe in a God, the One who loves them and gave them life.  They were raised in a Christian home with Bible teachings.  They were not raised in a Jewish home, an Islamic home, a Buddhist home or any other religion.  Many children are born to homes that practice no religion whatsoever.  They are brought up in the image of what their parents put into them.  They develop the same morals, character and beliefs of their parents.  Sometimes later in life a person will seek their own identity and not that of their parents and find their own version of God. 

 

In 2025 we live in a world of instant information.  If you have a question you can find an answer.  The answer can come from many different versions of intelligence.  Artificial intelligence is just starting to take hold but even artificial intelligence was placed by human knowledge so there could be many answers.  Which one is the truth? How does a human speak of the knowledge of spirituality if they are not a spiritual person?  How does a person who has no relationship with God define the Spirit of God or the image of God? 

 

Scienfitic truths are the facts, but as technology changes and advances those facts can also change and therefore that scientific truth changes.  Is that the same with spiritual truth?  Can a Creator God open the eyes of the blind through the power of His Spirit? Can we be changed and molded into more of a reflection of who He is? I believe we can.  Personally as my knowledge of my God changes and grows my spirit also changes and grows.  I know only the one true God.  I know only his son Jesus Christ.  I know only the Holy Spirit who lives and dwells with me.  I study the Holy Bible and then I let the power of God's Holy Spirit open my eyes of understanding.  I seek knowledge.  I seek only his truth and as the years have passed I find my truth and his truth become one and the same.  I want and desire to be like my Father.

 

I pray a lot.  I want my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to have God in them and be transformed into his image.  As I write this they all know the same God that I do. They all confess that Jesus is the Son of God who came to pay the price for sin.  My heart is filled with love and thankfulness of this! I cannot express my gratitude for God's image being in my family and those who carry my blood in them!  What a miracle that we are considered chosen and called by the Creator of the Universe!  

 

When I look in a mirror I see my old blue eyes, my freckled white skin and now white hair that used to be reddish, I see a twinkle of God the Father in me.  In that reflection is my earthly father who had the blue eyes, his mother who had the red hair and freckles but also of my heavenly Father whose spirit lives in me.  This makes me smile!