In His Image

So I have had so much going on, both physically and spiritually lately that I haven’t written much at all and like always I have missed it tremendously.  No need to go into details except to say that God has been so good to me and continues to bless me beyond anything that I will ever deserve!  Although I began this blog in the New Testament and felt like I needed to continue there until completed, I now feel God leading me into the Old Testament.  For the last few weeks God has been telling me over and again that in order to know where we are going we have to know where we came from, and then last week I began reading The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn, a powerful book about the connection between the prophesy of Isaiah 9 and America.  Interesting thing, I did not find this book on my own, I was never seeking out a book like this at all, but I was told that I needed to read it by a couple of friends and I kept on saying that I would, but never got it.  Then it was lying on a friend’s desk and when I asked him about it he said for me to take it on with me and read it, so I did.  Wow, what God was telling me and what this book revealed was no coincidence.  I don’t want to reveal too much about the book, but I do want to encourage everyone to read it.  Although it focuses on America, it is also about preparing yourself for the time of judgment and reveals so many instances where God is calling His people back to Him.  I deeply encourage each one of you to read it as soon as you can---it is that powerful!

 So here we go, all the way back to the beginning!

Genesis 1

God spoke and it happened!  The beginning of the true ‘Word of God’ and how powerful is that Word.  I continue to be amazed at our God and who he truly is, he is the only true God---he is it---the creator of the universe!  Everything, including man, was formed by him, and how he loved us to create us in his own image.  Now I do have a question about that, you know creating us in his image.  Look at verse 26, now read it again.  Did you catch something?  ‘Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…’.  Us? Our? Who is God talking to? Who is he referring to when he says ‘let us’ or ‘our image’?  Well I have no idea, unless it is his angels---that is all I can think of, but like I have said before I am no theologian, I am just a person who loves God and strives to grow closer to him through his Word.  And while there are many things that I don’t understand, many things that I don’t know the answer to, the thing I do know is that God is God and his love for us is greater than anything that we will ever comprehend.  We will never, ever understand everything about Him or His Word, but all that does not change the fact that he is God, will always be God and will always, always be in control of this world.  So as I read through the very beginning of creation I am consumed with the thought that he really does know everything about everything, he really does know how many hairs are on my head, he really does know the desires of my heart, he really does know how much I desire to serve him even when I mess up, he knows all these things because he not only created the universe, he created me and he created me in his image with love.