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Page 1 of 2 God created Man in His likeness
If people are really
Godlike creatures, it does not take very long to begin to ask the
question.” What kind of ‘God’ would create creatures that are so
violent, arrogant, and self indulged as what we see in the world?”
Couple
that with the gnawing fear of failure, insecurities, and general
frailties that we all know deep with our “selves”. Deep in the places
where we perceive the “me” that we rarely reveal to anybody. This place
can be a large overwhelming part of what we call our personality, but
often it is (or at least it appears to be) a smaller more controlled
corner of darkness pressed away somewhere deep in the basement of our
memory and experience.
We usually only release the realities of
our “selves” to a few close companions and even then usually only in
packaged parts and pieces just as a precaution against total exposure.
Total exposure – that’s what we fear.
We
operate out of a “secret place” that always needs protecting, it is
always needing, clawing after, grabbing, planning, strategizing, and
executing operations in our lives to get what we think we need and keep
it. Approval, acceptance, a measure of our worth, status, food,
clothing, safety…
What kind of God has created these people?
People like you and me –
We
celebrate the amazing strength, ingenuity, and success of some people
against staggering difficulties and obstacles - There are history books
and newspaper records to document the “good”, the “bad” and the “ugly”.
We are embroiled in this seething brew of a mixture of good and evil,
strength and weakness, honor and perversity, wisdom and foolishness.
There is the stench of innocent blood on the soil that grows our food,
we seek for justice, but often try to hide from it for fear of our own
guilt. We build our own defenses, we form weapons that seem to suit our
hands, and we grab and hold as much as we can as long as we can all the
while knowing that in the end there is a grave for us. History has been
teaching that lesson for thousands of years.
Is this the Image of God?
Here you will begin to find the answers.
The
truth is that God is good! – He is better than we thought, probably
better that we know right now. Mankind originated out of the heart of
God – we are born to reflect and demonstrate the actual nature and
reality of the Jehovah God of the Bible. God is a giver, He is rich in
mercy, He is patient, God is Agape Love, God is wisdom and knowledge,
He is a friend to the Poor, He looks after the widows, and notices
solitary sparrows, He counts the stars and calls them by their names,
God loves justice and hates robbery and deceitful scales, God does not
weary or slumber, He never tires, He is strong in Battle and His name
is the LORD OF HOSTS. He is all this and more– and He has never changed
His mind about his purpose.
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