18. INTERRUPTION (a) -- WE ARE MADE IN JESUS’ IMAGE !

Before we ask ourselves the question if we can live a perfect ‘life of love’ like Jesus did, we must see what the Bible says about the origin of man.

In the first book of the Bible, Genesis 1:26-27 we read: “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness...’ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:26-27).

God created man in his own image so that we could have a direct relationship with him, but we were not created as divine beings. In Genesis 2:7 we read: “The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (Genesis 2:7).

We just read in Genesis 1:26: “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness...” The One God expresses himself here in the plural. That means that man originally was created in the image of God the Father, God the Son, Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit.

The apostle Paul explains: “Christ is the one through whom God created everything in heaven and earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see … Everything has been created through him and for him. He existed before everything else began, and he holds all creation together.”
(Colossians 1:16-17)

(About Jesus Christ as the Son of God see Meditations 2 and 3).

So, if we are created in the image and likeness of God the Son, Jesus Christ, why don’t we live such a perfect ‘life of love’ as Jesus did? Let’s think about that question next week.


All Bible verses are quoted from the ‘New International Version’ except Colossians 1:16-17 (‘New Living Translation’).