In His Image

No two of us are exactly alike.  Even those who wear the moniker of identical twins can be individually identified by those who know and love them.  When we think about all the people of the world and each one being different from all the rest, we are indeed considering a miracle.  Yet, even as this is true, we bear the markings of those who are responsible for our birth.  While seeing a multitude of children passing in a store with their parents, I realized again how every child bears some markings that identify them as belonging to a particular Moma or Daddy. 

 

In the book of Genesis there is this Word which says, "Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our own image, according to our likenes...so God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them."  (Genesis 1:26-27)  Even as we bear the DNA markings of some human mother and father, so is there something about us which identifies each one of us as being created by the Creator God in His very image.  Of course, this has nothing to do with skin color, or propensity to be tall or short, or the length of our nose.  Instead, it has to do with something intrinsically a part of us; yet, invisible to the human eye.

 

But, what is invisible to the human eye is clearly seen by the Creator of the universe who had no small part in our being who we are.  At the moment of conception, He marked us with His holy image.  We became one of those created through a process that is filled with the things of earth; yet, also filled with what can only be described as mysterious and divine.  From that moment forward we are forever seen by Him as one who belongs to Him through creation.  Like a father, He loves us and like the One Who brings order to the universe, He saves and delivers us.