Who is created in God's Image and Likeness????

One of the words that came several times over this past weekend and on New Year's Day, was that God Has created us in His image and likeness.

Genesis 1: 27....Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So 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 said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

 So I asked the Scientific question

 How is an Image made? 

Scientific answer

 "Anything and everything you see is light.

We are surrounded by white light. It is in a way wrong to actually say that a car is green and a bus is yellow.. The point here is that the light is a spectrum of different colors, that together makes white. When a green car looks green to us, that means that it actually absorbs the other colors of the white spectrum, hence only reflecting green. Exactly the same with any other object. 

All colors look like they do because of their ability to absorb the other colors of the spectrum of light.

A mirror on the other hand simply reflect 90-99% of the light that hits it, hence we see a reflection in it. The  better the  mirror, the better reflection." 

So, how I relate my scientific understanding with my spirit understanding?? 

Just as the moon reflects the sun and becomes it's image to us in the night (DARK) 

 So then we too are called to reflect God and become His image to the world. Holy Spirit is here to be in each and everyone who allows Holy Spirit to take control. So, it is possible to be the reflection and image of God to the world.

We are called to be the ( mirror )of God's Image  ( It is no coincidence that Jesus says He is the light of the world... "John 95 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”) We Need His light to be able to reflect His image to others. We are called to be light in the dark.   We are to reflect in our mirror of God  Gal 5: 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.

The Message Bible says it this way(MSG)

"The Life of Freedom Gal: 5 Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you...... What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.......

22-23 But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

23-24 Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.

25-26 Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original." 

So may we walk in the light as He is in the light and have fellowship one with the other. Let us encourage each other to be the image and likeness of God. Let us sharpen each other this year. Let us be determined to fellowship as one family as Holy Spirit Jesus and the father are all one.

P.S

Just a reminder we are called to be community and have fellowship, relationship. We are not called to isolation in Christ. It is a Lie from Satan to be encouraged to stay home and do your own thing. There is no example of Jesus doing that.  The only time Jesus was alone was for prayer and fasting and to be tempted of the devil. Many times Jesus asked the disciples to pray with him and they were not able to keep up with His desire to pray, they would fall asleep and leave Him alone to pray. His desire was to do all in community. His desire is that we present His image and likeness to others in our communities. So, let's do that!