Made in the Perfect Image - Genesis 1-3

 Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV)

26 Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27 So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

Made in the Perfect Image

We make a lot of stuff in our country.  We are producers.  We like to invent things.  We like to craft things.  We like to come up with a new way to solve old problems.   Where does this come from within our souls and spirits?   Perhaps the above verse gives us some deeper insights into our psyche of being creators.  THE CREATOR created us in His image.  Since He is a creator and He created us in His image, it makes sense that we, too, would be a creator.   We are made in the image of God in every aspect that an “image” can be made.  We love, because God is love.  We have emotion, because God has emotion (He weeps, He rejoices, He hates, He grieves).   We were created to be His representative.   We were not created righteous, however.  Adam seems to be have been created in innocence.   After the fall, that image of us like God was damaged.  We still create, but no longer in innocence, now in evil.   Our sin nature makes the image of God within us, marred.  That is why we needed Christ to change that image and rebirth it, re-create it within us.   Note:

2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV)

21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

We are being changed, on degree at a time:

2 Corinthians 3:18 (ESV)

18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Through the cross God restored our “in the image” of Himself.   That is the point of the Bible. That is the point of the resurrection of Christ.  That is the point of us on the earth.   God wants to repair the image He created us in that was damaged by sin.   We create because God made us in His image.  We will only, once again, created for His glory once that image is repaired by the work of the cross.   We love but for our glory. Once that image is repaired by the work of the cross in our hearts we will love the way God loves and for His glory.