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Spoken word artist, writer, Bar aspirant @ Adekunle Ajasin University
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THE IMAGE OF GOD
<p>This morning, during our family devotion, my dad asked a very simple question:</p><p>“What image were we created in?”</p><p><br/></p><p>The answer came almost immediately “God’s image.”</p><p><br/></p><p>Of course. We’ve heard it countless times.</p><p><br/></p><p>But then he asked, “What does it actually mean to be made in God’s image?”</p><p>And for the first time, I realized I didn’t really know how to answer.</p><p><br/></p><p>I started thinking about how we often interpret it. </p><p>God has a head, we have a head. </p><p>God has hands, we have hands. </p><p>God has eyes, we have eyes. </p><p>Some people even talk about God’s complexion as though He must look exactly like a particular group of people.</p><p><br/></p><p>But then, where does that leave everyone else?</p><p><br/></p><p>If being made in God’s image is about physical appearance, does God have every complexion? </p><p>Does he change form depending on who is looking at him? </p><p>What about someone born blind, someone who cannot walk, or those with six fingers and we have five? </p><p>Are they somehow less of God’s image?</p><p><br/></p><p>And that was when the question became much deeper for me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe being made in God’s image was never primarily about what we look like.</p><p>Maybe it is about what He put inside us.</p><p><br/></p><p>The ability to create, to think, to imagine, to love, to reason, to build, to communicate, to choose, to have dominion. </p><p>To bring something into existence that was not there before.</p><p><br/></p><p>God creates, and we create.</p><p>God thinks, and He gave us the ability to think.</p><p>God loves, and He gave us the capacity to love.</p><p>God gives purpose, and He gave us the ability to live with purpose.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe that's why, immediately after creating man in His image, God said, “Be fruitful and multiply.”</p><p>There was something of Him in us that was meant to produce.</p><p><br/></p><p>And perhaps being made in God's image is not simply about being called Christians. </p><p>It is about recognizing that we carry something of our Creator's nature within us.</p><p>John 1:12 says that those who receive Him are given the power to become children of God.</p><p><br/></p><p>So maybe the question isn't only, “Do I believe I was made in God's image?”</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe the better question is</p><p>“What am I doing with the image of God that I carry?”</p><p><br/></p><p>Because if His image is in me, then there should be something about the way I think, create, love, live and influence the world that points back to Him.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>
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