Image Bearers

Isaiah 55:8-9

⁸ “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.

“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

⁹ For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so my ways are higher than your ways

and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. ^[1]

God is different…well, it may be better said that we are different, because He is the standard. We are told in Scripture that God made us in His own image, but sometimes we are guilty of trying to create Him in our image, and that is when we get into trouble. We must be careful when we are thinking of God that we don’t project human characteristics on Him, specifically one’s like our own, but allow space for God to be who He is; which should be the proper way of thinking in any relationship.

No doubt in the timeline of history, God, in the 2^nd Person of the Trinity, incarnated Himself into being a human for the purpose of revelation and redemption, but God Himself is not a “larger” form of ourselves with more perfect human characteristics than us. He is completely different than us in a league all His own. God is God alone.

We as His followers must realize not only the difference, but the need to conform our lives to who He is in the person of Jesus, who is our true reference point, not the other way around. We must take time out in our lives to ponder and wonder on the Being who is God, now our Father through faith in Jesus. So, remember, make sure your view of God is correlated in Jesus, not in a more perfect version of yourself. 

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^[1] Tyndale House Publishers. (2015). Holy Bible: New Living Translation (Is 55:8–9). Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.