You look like your Dad!

You look like your Dad!

Six years ago on December 31, 2008,

my fourth granddaughter, Mackenzie, was born.

Four pounds of cute!

Sarah (Mackenzie’s mother), Sandy (my wife) and I

went down to the ICU Nursery for the first time together.

Three generations of women.

The first conversation was who Mackenzie looked like.

Every feature of Mackenzie was examined by Sarah and Sandy.

I kept waiting to hear if they saw any similarities of me in Mackenzie.

The closest was Sarah said, “She has the looks of a Self.”

God said on the sixth day,

He created people, a man and a woman

and He said, “We were created in His image.”

You and I look like our Heavenly Father.

Our Father in Heaven is like us.

In John 3:16, we see God loved the people.

In Psalms 5:5, God hates all who do wrong.

We can see that God is

kind, compassionate, and He can get jealous.

When we look for the attributes of our Creator,

we see an image of ourselves…

With only one difference

Every emotion is pure, under control, and acted out perfectly.

Yes, our Creator God, can think and feel just like you and I.

Many have said that women received a better ability to feel

and a greater portion of the emotional side of God.

While men, received a greater portion of logic.

Women are motivated by feelings

and men are motivated by logic.

These are wonderful features of our Creator God in us.

But with us,

feelings is a great servant

but a bad master.

And logic is

a great servant

but a bad master.

You and I were created in the image of our Creator.

When we are “born again” in the way that Jesus speaks of

when talking to Nicodemus (John 3),

we than can call Creator God, our Father.

Every person is a part of God’s creation,

but you can not be apart of God’s family until you are “born again.”

God wants each one of us to be born again into His family,

so He can develop His image in us

as a loving father trains and equips his children.

The greatest compliment you can receive is

“I see Jesus in you.”

That will make our Father God proud!

Scripture Reading

Genesis 1:20-31 NLT

20 And God said, "Let the waters swarm with fish and other life.

Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind."

21 So God created great sea creatures and every sort of fish and every kind of bird.

 And God saw that it was good. 22 Then God blessed them, saying,

"Let the fish multiply and fill the oceans. Let the birds increase and fill the earth."

23 This all happened on the fifth day.

24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth every kind of animal

 — livestock, small animals, and wildlife." And so it was.

25 God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals,

each able to reproduce more of its own kind. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, "Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves.

They will be masters over all life — the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky,

and all the livestock, wild animals, and small animals."

27 So God created people in his own image;

God patterned them after himself;

male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them and told them, "Multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.

Be masters over the fish and birds and all the animals."

29 And God said, "Look! I have given you the seed-bearing plants throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.

30 And I have given all the grasses and other green plants to the animals

and birds for their food." And so it was.

31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was excellent in every way. This all happened on the sixth day.