Category: 3

3 “In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.”

 Genesis 5:1

 This verse demonstrates to us the precious nature that belongs to women and men. We are not mere lumps of flesh or a conglomeration of cells, but creatures created by God to be His friends. This elevates our psyche beyond and above the animals for we are not like them.

 We may be superficially like animals in some respects and the powers that be in the scientific community have tried to downplay the human and raise up the animal to try and make them equal and alike, but we are not. Human beings have a spiritual facility that animals do not have for we have living souls that allow us to relate to the eternal God and we can know Him and commune with Him.

 Too many people do not value this facility and therefore do not know God nor do they draw close to Him. This underplays our spiritual life and indeed if we do not know God we have no spiritual life. Because in our natural life we do not perceive God or our need of Him, we think there is nothing else outside our own experience. It is only when God awakens our mind and heart that we can see our need of Him and purposefully seek him out. We find Him when we come to the end of ourselves and realise our deep need of moral forgiveness and the new life in Christ.

 We were made for God and therefore made in His image and have His eternal mark in our psyche. We have the propensity for eternity and we find life when we bow our knees to the Father God and repent and believe.