Making in His image

It has been a long while since i did devotion and i really want to thank God for bringing me back to Living Life. Today, the devotion comes from http://www.duranno.com/livinglife/english_su06.asp. You can take a look if you want to.

The main concept that i got is on how we are create in God's image. Even though we are not like God in many ways: just take a look at the number of crimes committed daily you will get what i mean; today's devotion reminded us that "hey! We can share the same image as God in our character! There is this hope because He made us like Them on the 6th day of creation." Though we have been fallen since the era of Adam and Eve, there is this hopes which comes from Jesus Christ that we can made reconcile with God. Which means a further hope for us to be like God's image, not to become God, but to share the same characteristics of God : holy, righteous, loving, Good.

If i understand this hope correctly, then the path ahead is to truly be able to recognise the unique mandate given to us. To the rest of the people that still have yet to known God, let them catch a glimpse of how God's feel like through us. To the rest of the creation of this earth, lets remember that we are entrusted to be good caretakers of God's creation. Let me break it down to a more bite size features.
1. Learn to resist evil. That's in no way like God.
2. Promote what God would do. Practice every form of Goodness.
3. Strive to be holy. So that people can see God's likeness in you.
4. Be good steward of the resources given to you. Be it electricity, water, animals or air.

Well, something interesting about today devotions comes at the last part. Yes, the Sabbath is suppose to be a day of holiness and rest. But they is provided you manage to spend the other 6 days pursuing
God, which should take you the full length of 6 days of pursuing Goodness. To me it feels interesting and humble at the same time, because it seems that God has it plan out all along and it have planned it out all along, as seen in Jeremiah 29:11.

With this, happy Thursday!
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