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| THURS. September 2 |
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| SCRIPTURE READING: Genesis 1:26-31 |
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| KEY VERSE: So God created humankind in his image (Gen. 1:27, NRSV). |
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| Family Resemblance |
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We were looking at some old church photos. One was of a group of junior boys mugging for the camera. Some began to identify the boys, now men, in the picture. Two boys stood together. They looked almost like twins.
"Who are they?" I asked.
"I don't know for sure," someone answered, "but they are Taylors. The Taylors all look the same."
God created our first parents in His image with His likeness. This could not have been a physical resemblance. Jesus said, "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24). The image we bear is not physical, but moral. Though marred by sin, God's image within us can be restored in Christ.
"[Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation" (Col. 1:15). The Father's desire is that we "who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit" (2 Cor. 3:18).
As children of our Heavenly Father, we faithfully display His image through the daily transformation of our lives by His abiding Spirit.
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| Duane Brush |
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| SING TO THE LORD |
| That I, a child of hell, should in His image shine!
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| "The Comforter Has Come" by Frank Bottome |
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| REACH OUT IN PRAYER |
| Extension education for training Christians in El Salvador |
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| THOUGHT FOR THE DAY |
| [You] have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator (Col. 3:10). |
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| THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR |
| 2 Chronicles 7-9 |
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All Scripture quotations not otherwise designated are from the Holy Bible, New International Version® (NIV®). Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
From the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
All hymn texts are taken from the hymnal Sing to the Lord. Copyright © 1993 by Lillenas Publishing Company.
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