From the Desk of Steve Shultz:
My friend John Belt writes an inspiring word about what it means to be set apart, AND transform into His likeness.
Here's just a peak as John shares:
"What image we project is a big deal. That is why God wants us transformed into His image and likeness. How does that happen?
There are two sides to this coin..."
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"Transformed into God's Image"
John Belt, Cincinnati, OH
"Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.' So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." (Genesis 1:26-27)
We see in the beginning that God created man in His own image and likeness. Before the fall of man, Adam and Eve reflected that image of God in fullness. They walked in the presence of God, not having a "self-awareness" in the sense of having to fix themselves (Genesis 3:8). The glory of God surrounded them in the Garden of Eden, which literally means "the garden of pleasures." After the fall, although physically they still had an essence of God's image, it was now distorted by sin as they now fell short of "His glory."
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)
After this point God spoke of a day of restoration where Christ would come to bring man back into a place of walking in His glory (Genesis 3:15). Through this life of communion with the Spirit God would enable man to more fully exemplify the image of God once again in fullness.
"Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3:17-18)
It is a process of restoration from glory to glory where we behold God and become those who shine with His radiance as was His original intent. Ultimately we will be completely like Him as we will be with Him, seeing Him as He is.
Set-Apart Ones
What image we project is a big deal. That is why God wants us transformed into His image and likeness. How does that happen?
There are two sides to this coin. One side is about our intake of the knowledge of God. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks (Proverbs 23:7; Matthew 12:34). The other side of this coin is...(continue reading)
