Mindboggling

Mindboggling and amazing is what it is.  "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness...So God created man in His image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them."  (Genesis 1:26-27)  What one of us can comprehend?  What one of us can begin to figure it out?  What we have in these few words recorded in the book of beginning is a mystery understood only by the Writer of the Word. 

 

One of the things which becomes obvious as we begin to consider this great mystery is that there are no exceptions.  Each one of us regardless of our status bears the image of the Creator.  And, this also means that not even the stain of sin in our life changes the fact that we bear the image of God.  There are things we are able to change about ourselves.  We can change our appearance.  We can change how people perceive us.  We can change what we do, or where we live.  What we cannot change is the reality that this holy mystery exists in us at the core of our being.

 

It would seem that our sin, especially those which we might regard as the terrible sins, would somehow destroy this holy image which exist in us, but not even sin can obliterate the image of God which was imprinted upon us when we were created.  Our sin may make it difficult for people to think of us as one created in the image of God.  Our sin may obscure our awareness of it at the essence of our being, but once created in the image of God, we carry it with us throughout the whole of our life.  It is one of God's gift to us.  He does not take it back.  The journey toward God through Christ is about allowing who we are at the core of our being to influence every moment we live.